Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.
Giacomo LeopardiReal misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo LeopardiMen do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
Giacomo Leopardi