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.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing...

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience...

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or...

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are...

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without...

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without...

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone...

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone...

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard,...

A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard,...

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear...

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and...

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke...

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke...

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much...

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much...

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant...

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant...

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than...

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than...