Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

- Giacomo Leopardi

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 prese…

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- 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

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

- 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