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The thought that really crush...

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

If the best company is that w...

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 55 quotes

He who travels much has this ...

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

That is why all great men are...

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 present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

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Boredom is the most sublime o...

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

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I find it awfully difficult t...

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.

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Irresolute men are sometimes ...

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Since the world never faults ...

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Everything since Homer has im...

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

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The artisan or scientist or t...

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Man is doomed either squander...

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

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The most solid pleasure in th...

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

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Men are ready to suffer anyth...

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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If content with himself and m...

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

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No one is so completely disen...

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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Real misanthropes are not fou...

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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No human trait deserves less ...

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

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

There are some centuries whic...

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

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Old age is the supreme evil, ...

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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Death is not evil, for it fre...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

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