"I have met with some of them -……" — Giacomo Casanova
"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."
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87 Quotes by Giacomo Casanova
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it…
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind…
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me…
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he…
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I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good…
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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh…
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I don't conquer, I submit.
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Love is three quarters curiosity.
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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the…
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although…
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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character…
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