Giacomo Casanova

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

— Giacomo Casanova

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a…

— Giacomo Casanova

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good…

— Giacomo Casanova

“faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.”

— Giacomo Casanova

“Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee…

— Giacomo Casanova

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent…

— Giacomo Casanova

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a…

— Giacomo Casanova

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

— Giacomo Casanova

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

— Giacomo Casanova

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes…

— Giacomo Casanova

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant,…

— Giacomo Casanova

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

— Giacomo Casanova

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

— Giacomo Casanova

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his…

— Giacomo Casanova

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

— Giacomo Casanova

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists,…

— Giacomo Casanova

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the…

— Giacomo Casanova

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

— Giacomo Casanova

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it…

— Giacomo Casanova

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse…

— Giacomo Casanova

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil,…

— Giacomo Casanova

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I…

— Giacomo Casanova

If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I…

— Giacomo Casanova

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe…

— Giacomo Casanova

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had…

— Giacomo Casanova