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Giacomo Leopardi Quotes


An Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist.
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (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.

Here are some famous quotes by Giacomo Leopardi.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

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You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

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

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

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

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I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.

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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.