Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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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.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Real, Lying, Love Is

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• Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sex, Opposites, Feelings

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• The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Pleasure, Hardest, Sweetest

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Beautiful, Mind, Lovers

  Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask (1997). “History of My Life”, p.50, JHU Press

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• one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Make It Count

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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.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Witty, Men, Mind

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• To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Kissing, Essence, Dating

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• Be the flame, not the moth.

  Giacomo Casanova

  I Hate You, Flames, Moths

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• Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sweet, Fall, Passion

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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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 remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Past, Laughing, Remembrance

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Inspirational, Teacher, Self

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men, Giving, Forever

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• Love is three quarters curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Romance, Curiosity

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• Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Facts, Good Times, Aries

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• I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Intelligent, Men, Blood

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• There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

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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.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Exercise, Laughing, Might

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• economy spoils pleasure

  Giacomo Casanova

  Pleasure, Economy, Spoil

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.173, JHU Press

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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, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Evil, Done, Agents

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Needs, Reason, Accepted

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Writing, Done, Worthy

  Giacomo Casanova (2000). “The Story of My Life”, Marsilio Pub

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• The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Lying, Principles, Doe

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• If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Children, Taken, Intelligent

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.414, JHU Press

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• There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Destiny, Shapes, Our Lives

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.977, Simon and Schuster

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• The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Four, Lovers, Aries

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