104 Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi

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

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

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

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.

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.

The end of pain we take as happiness.