Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: The blame lies entirely with the female sex… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Happy are those who know how to obtain pleasures without injury to anyone; insane are those who fancy that the Almighty can… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.” — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee the first… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image