Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

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

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

The end of pain we take as happiness.

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.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.