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Giacomo Casanova has 91 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to…
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in…
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