Giacomo Casanova Quotes
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.
— Giacomo Casanova
To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.
— Giacomo Casanova
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
— Giacomo Casanova
Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]
— Giacomo Casanova
Finishing first is nothing to brag about.
— Giacomo Casanova
I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.
— Giacomo Casanova
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
— Giacomo Casanova
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
— Giacomo Casanova
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
— Giacomo Casanova
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
— Giacomo Casanova
[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
— Giacomo Casanova
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
— Giacomo Casanova
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.
— Giacomo Casanova
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
— Giacomo Casanova
Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.
— Giacomo Casanova
I don't conquer, I submit.
— Giacomo Casanova
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
— Giacomo Casanova
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
— Giacomo Casanova
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
— Giacomo Casanova
Marriage is the tomb of love.
— Giacomo Casanova
economy spoils pleasure
— Giacomo Casanova
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
— Giacomo Casanova
It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.
— Giacomo Casanova
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
— Giacomo Casanova
The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
— Giacomo Casanova
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
— Giacomo Casanova
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
— Giacomo Casanova
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
— Giacomo Casanova
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
— Giacomo Casanova
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
— Giacomo Casanova
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
— Giacomo Casanova
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
— Giacomo Casanova
[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.
— Giacomo Casanova
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
— Giacomo Casanova
I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
— Giacomo Casanova
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
— Giacomo Casanova
Be the flame, not the moth.
— Giacomo Casanova
They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
— Giacomo Casanova
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
— Giacomo Casanova
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
— Giacomo Casanova
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
— Giacomo Casanova
When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.
— Giacomo Casanova
I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.
— Giacomo Casanova
THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING
— Giacomo Casanova
Love is three quarters curiosity.
— Giacomo Casanova
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
— Giacomo Casanova
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
— Giacomo Casanova
The thing is to dazzle
— Giacomo Casanova
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
— Giacomo Casanova
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
— Giacomo Casanova
Those who do not love life do not deserve it.
— Giacomo Casanova
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
— Giacomo Casanova
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
— Giacomo Casanova
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
— Giacomo Casanova
The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.
— Giacomo Casanova
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.
— Giacomo Casanova
Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy
— Giacomo Casanova