What did Giacomo Leopardi mean by: Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. Giacomo Leopardi Copy
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again — Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Dream, Freedom, Thought, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Courage, Humor, Mastery, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Incompleteness, Language, Limitation, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Authenticity, Identity, Self-awareness, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Humanity, Intolerance, Tolerance, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Rarity, Relationships, Tolerance, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Ignorance, Rationality, Self-interest, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
In all climates, under all skies, man’s happiness is always somewhere else. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Leopardi, Dissatisfaction, Pursuit, Wanderlust, 0 Giacomo Leopardi
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
