Giacomo Leopardi Famous Quotes



"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."


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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Publilius Syrus

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O Casey

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Dr Howard Murphy

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Harold S Geneen

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun

"I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them."
Titus Livius

"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."
Auguste Renoir

"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
Albert Camus

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."
Aaron Rose

"It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so."
Josh Billings