We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.
Giacomo LeopardiThe old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.
Giacomo LeopardiThe surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
Giacomo Leopardi