Quotes of Giacomo Leopardi - somelinesforyou

“ Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ 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. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ It's not our disadvantages or short-comings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ 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. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ 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. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ It's not our disadvantages or short-comings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ 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. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ It's not our disadvantages or short-comings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

“ It's not our disadvantages or short-comings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist. ”

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

- Giacomo Leopardi
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