"They are the follies inherent to youth; I……" — Giacomo Casanova
"They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile."
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87 Quotes by Giacomo Casanova
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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…
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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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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of…
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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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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are…
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are…
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