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Giacomo Leopardi

Essays and Dialogues

  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    the aged, instead of the solace of Love, will be granted a state of contentment with their existence, similar to that of other animals. They will love life for its own sake, not for any pleasure or profit they derive from it."
    Accordingly, Jove r
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    Thus the life of man, divided betwixt the worship of Truth and Lov
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    riving themselves of life, because under the sway of Truth they will become as cowardly as miserable. Truth will increase the bitterness of their existence, and at the same time bereave them of sufficient courage to reject
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    ed the eternity of their joy, to mortals she would expose the immensity of their unhappiness, representing it to them not as a matter of chance, but as an inevitable and perpetual necessity
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    such sufferings. For it is a characteristic of the unfortunate that they imagine happiness will wait on them as soon as the immediate cause of their present misfortune is removed
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    He knew that disease and misfortune would operate as a preventive to the committal of those acts of suicide which had formerly been rife; for they would not only make men cowardly and weak, but would help to attach them to life by the hope of an existence free from such sufferings
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    reduce the vigour of men's minds, to humble their pride, to make them bow the head to necessity, and be more contented with their lot
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    god hoped that men would be better able to bear the absenc
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    e happiness they longed for, when occupied and under the discipline of suffering
  • stackoficebearshas quoted7 years ago
    The gods avenged themselves for their injuries, and punished mortals for their renewed perverseness, by the deluge of Deucalion.
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