Giacomo Casanova Quotes
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I don't conquer, I submit.
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Love is three quarters curiosity.
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
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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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