– Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone di pensieri, 16 settembre 1832
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«Two truths that men will generally never believe: one, that we know nothing, the other, that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.»
– Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone, September 16th 1832
(2013, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; translated by Kathleen Baldwin, Richard Dixon, David Gibbons, Ann Goldstein, Gerard Slowey, Martin Thom, Pamela Williams)