Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched. Giacomo Leopardi More Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi More Quotes From Giacomo Leopardi 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 men believe sex He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present. Giacomo Leopardi quality remember memories 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 sorrow evil men We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. Giacomo Leopardi fabulous childhood years Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Giacomo Leopardi evil desire men Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own. Giacomo Leopardi yield strong men The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation. Giacomo Leopardi crush life-and-death futility-of-life 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 scientist artist art 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 discipline century art Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. Giacomo Leopardi People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. Giacomo Leopardi
