Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

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

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

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and u...

The end of pain we take as happiness.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try t...

Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --

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

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

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly dis...

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote...

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air ...

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it ta...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and n...