Skip to main content

The old man, especially if he ...

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

The greater part of the people...

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

The artisan or scientist or th...

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

Old age is the supreme evil, f...

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

There are some centuries which...

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

If the best company is that wh...

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

The world laughs at things it ...

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

I find it awfully difficult to...

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

If content with himself and ma...

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

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

He who doubts, knows - knows a...

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

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

The commonplace expression tha...

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

There's no greater sign of bei...

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

I may be wrong, but it seems r...

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Men seldom act from a correct ...

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

We remember childhood as the f...

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Man is almost always as wicked...

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Men do not so much hate an evi...

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 55 quotes

The artist's conception of his...

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

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.

Giacomo Leopardi 55 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....