Giacomo Leopardi
Poet
1798-06-29
Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi
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The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.
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Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --
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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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The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.
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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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Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
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The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
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Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
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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.
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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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The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.
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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.
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The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them.
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The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.
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