104 Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi

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.

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

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

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.

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

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

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

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

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