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Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo leoˈpardi]; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century. Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. The strongly lyrical quality of his poetry made him a central figure on the European and international literary and cultural landscape.

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If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Curt, Harsh, Mankind, Men

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

Give, Giving Up, Make, Men, Persistence, Undertakings

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

Ideas, Infinitely, Men, Minds, People

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.

Discipline, Follower, Followers, Habit, Opinion

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Life, Men, Philosophical, Poor, Wanting, Wise

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Age, May, Mouths, Praise, Praised, Wrong

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Age, Childhood, Kind, Men, Remembers

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Heaven, Men, Ready, Suffering, Untouched

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Desire, Exist, Shortcomings, Studious, Trying, Way

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Crush, Death, Futility, Futility Of Life, Life And Death, Manifestation

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.

Acquire, Disadvantage, Memories, Places, Quality, Remember

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.

Art, Artist, Conception, Scientist, Worth

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

Chains, Dream, Freedom, Thought

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Empty, Illusion, Life, Life Is, Pleasure

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.

Age, Brings, Evil, Men, Old, Sorrow

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.

Become, Completely, Disgusted, Happiness, Laughter, Smile

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Nothing, Person, Persons, Rare, World

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.

Educated, Part, People, Son, Teaching, Thing

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

Courage, Die, Dream, Laughing, Love, Master

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Evil, Hate, Man, Men, Real

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