Giacomo Casanova quotes - page 3

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. (Giacomo Casanova)
I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself. View quote
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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 an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. View quote
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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. View quote
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Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Economy spoils pleasure. View quote
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Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses. View quote
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it. View quote
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[Malipiero's advice to Casanova. ] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge. (Giacomo Casanova)
Man is free; but not unless he believes he is. View quote
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Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it. View quote
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I don't conquer, I submit. View quote
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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe in the existence of an immaterial God, the Author and Master of all beings and all things, and I feel that I never had any doubt of His existence, from the fact that I have always relied upon His providence, prayed to Him in my distress, and that He has always granted my prayers. Despair brings death, but prayer does away with despair; and when a man has prayed he feels himself supported by new confidence and endowed with power to act. As to the means employed by the Sovereign Master of human beings to avert impending dangers from those who beseech His assistance, I confess that the knowledge of them is above the intelligence of man, who can but wonder and adore. View quote
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The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance. I felt myself born for the fair sex, I have ever loved it dearly, and I have been loved by it as often and as much as I could. View quote
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Things have come to such a point in good society that, if you want to be polite, you can no longer ask a man from what country he comes, for if he is a Norman or a Calabrian he has, when he tells you so, to beg your pardon, or, if he is from the Pays de Vaud, to say he is Swiss. Nor will you ask a nobleman what his arms are, for if he does not know the jargon of heraldry you will embarrass him. You must not compliment a gentleman on his fine hair, for if it is a wig, he may think you are mocking him, nor praise a man or a woman on their fine teeth, for they may be false. View quote
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised. View quote
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The happiest man is the one who knows how to obtain the greatest sum of happiness without ever failing in the discharge of his duties, and the most unhappy is the man who has adopted a profession in which he finds himself constantly under the sad necessity of foreseeing the future. (Giacomo Casanova)
Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian. View quote
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The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance of the harm inflicted on him; forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. View quote
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Nothing is so catching as the plague; now, fanaticism, no matter of what nature, is only the plague of the human mind. View quote
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[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it. View quote
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