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"53 Giacomo Casanova Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 April 1725. Died: 4 June 1798 | Adventurer | Author |

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing

One Makes Mistakes Nothing
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Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.

Happiness Duties Life Destiny
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Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

Youth Old age Cruel Enemy
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If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read

You Anything Worthy Write
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I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Writing Life Laugh Succeeding
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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Hope Deceitful Reason Need
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There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
Thing Destiny Shape Lives
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Be the flame, not the moth.

Be Flame Moth
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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 minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Loved Truth Minds Ignorant
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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 fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Beauty Charms Mind Desires
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I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Loved Women Madness Liberty
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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Sweetest Pleasures Hardest Won
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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain

We Authors Woes Griefs
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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 love him alone and forever

Man Woman Worth Love
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The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Principle Forbids Lie Truth
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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.

Man Love Despair Joy
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Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Desires Pain Torment Enjoyment
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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 more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

Man Believe Power Destiny
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Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Love Poet View Silent
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Economy spoils pleasure

Economy Spoils Pleasure
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We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

Love Reason Cease Manner
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The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned

Educate Read Travel Learned
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From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Love Sad Disease Affection
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Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Love Feeling Nature Species
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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Philosopher Person Pleasures Sorrow
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I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

Writer Women True Love
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Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

Finishing First Nothing Brag
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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence

Learned Health Food Abstinence
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it

Man Free Believe
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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 stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Love Pleasure Immortal Fantasy
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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 man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Man Power Nature Wise
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury

Worship God Action Respect
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Mind Human being Examine Memory
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Friends Fortune Power Gratitude
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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 slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Man Free Actions Passion
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Marriage is the tomb of love.

Marriage Tomb Love
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Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life

Worthy Life Subject
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When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

You Fool Blow Intelligence
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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.

Youth Kind Good Smile
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I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent

Food Constitution Health Excellent
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Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess
Happy Life Treasure Possess
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If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Want People Laugh Serious
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A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

Man Love Words Fool
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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 forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Forgets Forgive Heart Mind
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God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer

God Admit Possibility Suffer
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The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Rebellion City Wise Government
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Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Who Love Life Deserve
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To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Kiss Absorb Essence Person
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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Enjoy Present Future Laugh
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Courage Strength Self-confidence
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Giacomo Casanova Quotes & Sayings