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 More Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi More Quotes From Giacomo Leopardi 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 hate real men Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure. Giacomo Leopardi vivid age men Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched. Giacomo Leopardi suffering men heaven The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets. Giacomo Leopardi foxes laughing world The end of pain we take as happiness. Giacomo Leopardi pain ends 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 hatred real philosophy Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. Giacomo Leopardi childhood age men The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them. Giacomo Leopardi concealing boundaries way 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 expression play world 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 satisfied bored feelings 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 philosophical wise men 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 discipline opinion followers If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt. Giacomo Leopardi harsh mankind men 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 teaching people son Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. Giacomo Leopardi 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 youth men years 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 running talking men Of men eternally dear! happy indeed Giacomo Leopardi breathing-space pain ifs Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. Giacomo Leopardi may men Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require. Giacomo Leopardi wicked men needs
