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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

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Giacomo Leopardi
Age: 38 †
Born: 1798
Born: June 29
Died: 1837
Died: June 14
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Cosimo Papareschi
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi
Giàcomo Leopardi
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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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It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
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Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.
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Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
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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 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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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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A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
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In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
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Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
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The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
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Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
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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.
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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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The end of pain we take as happiness.
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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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He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
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It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth
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