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Giacomo Leopardi

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


— Giacomo Leopardi


#romanticism #dreams

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.


— Giacomo Leopardi


#away #death #desire #desires #evil

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


#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.


— Giacomo Leopardi


#everyday #everyday life #gets #human #intolerance

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.


— Giacomo Leopardi


#begins #completely #disenchanted #disgusted #does

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


#found #hatred #life #mankind #philosophy

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


#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

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


— Giacomo Leopardi


#people #ridiculous #seem #try #which

Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.


— Giacomo Leopardi


#inspirational






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Did you know about Giacomo Leopardi?

In the first strophe in fact the Giacomo Leopardiep-herder even while defining the moon as silent actually expects a response from it and discovers many analogies between his own condition and that of the moon: both of them arise in the morning follow their always self-identical paths and finally stop to rest. Nerina and Silvia are both dreams evanescent phantasms; life for Leopardi is an illusion the only reality being death. He has come to the realization too late to change things that everything was done in vain that everything has been pointless that he will even die dishonoured and disgraced for his well-intentioned actions.

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (Italian: [ˈdʒakomo leoˈpardi]; June 29 1798 – June 14 1837) was an Italian poet essayist philosopher and philologist. Although he lived in a secluded town in the ultra-conservative Papal States he came in touch with the main thoughts of the Enlightenment and by his own literary evolution created a remarkable and renowned poetic work related to the Romantic era.

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