Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. - Giacomo Leopardi
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
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…
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
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
In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
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.
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness. - Giacomo Leopardi
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
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.
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.
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