Author: Giacomo Leopardi

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

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

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

- Giacomo Leopardi

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.

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.

- Giacomo Leopardi

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