Giacomo Leopardi

Person · Open Library

Born

1798

Died

1837

Works

676

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

1798-06-29

Active to

1837-06-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

210

Total plays

748

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Internet of Things: A survey

   · 2010 · cited 11,428x

2. THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM

   · 2004 · cited 5,803x

3. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

   · 2017 · cited 5,539x

4. Epidemiology, Patterns of Care, and Mortality for Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Intensive Care Units in 50 Countries

   · 2016 · cited 4,779x

5. Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of 1591 Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy Region, Italy

   · 2020 · cited 4,271x

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Quotes

• “Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”
• “NATURE: So flees the squirrel from the rattlesnake, and runs in its haste deliberately into the mouth of its tormentor. I am that from which thou fleest.”
• “It seems as though death were the essential aim of all things. That which has no existence cannot die; yet all that exists has proceeded from nothing. The final cause of existence is not happiness, for nothing is happy. It is true, living creatures seek this end in all their works, but none obtain it; and during all their life, ever deceiving, tormenting, and exerting themselves, they suffer indeed for no other purpose than to die.”
• “Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
• “Those innumerable and immense questions about time and space, argued over from the beginnings of metaphysics onward, by metaphysicians of every century, are none other than wars of words, caused by misunderstandings, and imprecision of thought, and limited ability to understand our mind, which is the only place where time and space, like many other abstract things, exist independently and for themselves, and are something.”
• “Rest for ever (heart) enoughHast thou throbbed. Nothing is worthThy agitations, nor of sighs is worthyThe earth. Bitterness and vexationIs life, never aught besides, and mire the world.Quiet thyself henceforth. DespairFor the last time. To our race fateHas given but death.Henceforth despise Thyself, nature, the foulPower which, hidden, rules to the common bane,And the infinite vanity of the whole.”

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