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Men Quotes by Giacomo Casanova
- 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…
- 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…
- My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice…
- In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
- When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the…
- 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…
- The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
- The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst…
- A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
- Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]
- Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.
- There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of…
- I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool,…
- Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the…
- When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
- Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last…
- There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another…
- Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would…
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