Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardiwas an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century. 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. The extraordinarily lyrical quality of his...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 June 1798
CountryItaly
Giacomo Leopardi quotes about
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
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.
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.