He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.
Giacomo LeopardiI may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.
Giacomo LeopardiMen are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
Giacomo LeopardiThe world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.
Giacomo Leopardi