Leopardi Quotes
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In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
— Giacomo Leopardi
I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.
— Giacomo Leopardi
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace
— Giacomo Leopardi
Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.
— Giacomo Leopardi
The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.
— Giacomo Leopardi
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
— Giacomo Leopardi
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
— Giacomo Leopardi
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.
— Giacomo Leopardi
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again
— Giacomo Leopardi
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
— Giacomo Leopardi
He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.
— Giacomo Leopardi
The end of pain we take as happiness.
— Giacomo Leopardi
We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.
— Giacomo Leopardi
If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.
— Giacomo Leopardi
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
— Giacomo Leopardi
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
— Giacomo Leopardi
What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.
— Giacomo Leopardi
If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
— Giacomo Leopardi
