No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo LeopardiMen are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
Giacomo LeopardiBoredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.
Giacomo LeopardiHe 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 Leopardi