In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. - Giacomo Leopardi
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
- Giacomo Leopardi
He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known. - Giacomo Leopardi
He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.
In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else. - 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
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…
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. - Giacomo Leopardi
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. - Giacomo Leopardi
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
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
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
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
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness. - Giacomo Leopardi
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
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