Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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• It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
• I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were…
• Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it…
• My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either…
• Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment…
• 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…
• By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles…
• I don't conquer, I submit.
• Love is three quarters curiosity.
• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good…
• The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such…
• I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure…
• Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and…
• 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.
• I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the…
• I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises…
• I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give…
• The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be…
• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
• For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be:…

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