Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

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• The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Life Is, Illusion, Empty

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

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  Expression, Profound, Boredom

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• Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

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  Baby, Children, Men

  Giacomo Leopardi (2013). “Zibaldone”, p.288, Macmillan

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• Rest forever, tired heart.
  The final illusion has perished.
  The one we believed eternal is gone.
  Just like that. Out the door desire
  follows hope. Rest forever.
  Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention
  nor is the earth worth a sigh.
  Bitterness and boredom is life,
  nothing else ever, and the world is mud.
  Quiet now. Despair for the last time.
  Fate gives us dying as a gift.
  Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power
  which rules for the common evil
  and the infinite vanity of it all.

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  Tired, Heart, Fate

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• In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Men

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• Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Ignorance, Source, Source Of Happiness

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• That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

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  Men, Ideas, People

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• He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

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  Love, Dream, Laughing

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• People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

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  Being Yourself, Destiny, People

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• No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Tolerance, Everyday, Humans

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• Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

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  World, Persons

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• Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

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  Evil, Leaving, Suffering

  Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press

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• Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

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  Men, Wicked, Needs

  Giacomo Leopardi (1978). “Essays, Dialogues, and Thoughts (Operette Morali and Pensieri) of Giacomo Leopardi”

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• Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

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  Hate, Real, Men

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• He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

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  Doubt, Knows, Known

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• The end of pain we take as happiness.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Pain, Ends

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

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• There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

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  Wise, Philosophical, Men

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• It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

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  Taken, Simple, Men

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• Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

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  Dream, Chains

  Giacomo Leopardi (2016). “Leopardi: Selected Poems”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

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  Philosophy, Real, Hatred

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• No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

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  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• 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.

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  Moon, Sky, Evening

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• Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

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  Men, Age, Vivid

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

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  Art, Discipline, Century

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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