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Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “But he’s a fool who doesn’t see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.”

51. “But he’s a fool who doesn’t see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “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.”

52. “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

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.”

53. “Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop’s fox it criticizes things it covets.”

54. “The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop’s fox it criticizes things it covets.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Modernity, characterized by the diffusion of a written culture, has lost the memory of the oral origins of poetry; this insight is reaffirmed by Leopardi in 1831.”

55. “Modernity, characterized by the diffusion of a written culture, has lost the memory of the oral origins of poetry; this insight is reaffirmed by Leopardi in 1831.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Non solamente bisogna che il poeta imiti e dipinga a perfezione la natura, ma anche che la imiti e dipinga con naturalezza, anzi non imita la natura chi non la imita con naturalezza.”

56. “Non solamente bisogna che il poeta imiti e dipinga a perfezione la natura, ma anche che la imiti e dipinga con naturalezza, anzi non imita la natura chi non la imita con naturalezza.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.”

57. “People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation’s childhood is its mythical age.”

58. “Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation’s childhood is its mythical age.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.”

59. “Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.”

60. “Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.”

61. “If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “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.”

62. “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

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?”

63. “As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?”

— Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “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.”

64. “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

Giacomo Leopardi Quote: “Illusions cannot be condemned, despised, and persecuted save by those who are deluded and by those who believe that this world is or truly can be something, and something beautiful. An utterly crucial illusion, and so the half-philosopher combats illusions precisely because he is deluded; the true philosopher loves them and proclaims them because he is not deluded, and combating illusions in general is the surest sign of very imperfect and insufficient wisdom, and notable illusion.”

65. “Illusions cannot be condemned, despised, and persecuted save by those who are deluded and by those who believe that this world is or truly can be something, and something beautiful. An utterly crucial illusion, and so the half-philosopher combats illusions precisely because he is deluded; the true philosopher loves them and proclaims them because he is not deluded, and combating illusions in general is the surest sign of very imperfect and insufficient wisdom, and notable illusion.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

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