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Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation’s childhood is its mythical age. (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
In all climates, under all skies, man’s happiness is always somewhere else (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
The end of pain we take as happiness (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation’s childhood is its mythical age (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one’s own knowledge is not to overstep them (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
True misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world: because it is practical experience of the world and not philosophy that makes men hate (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
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 (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
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 (Giacomo Leopardi Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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