Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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• Be the flame, not the moth.

  Giacomo Casanova

  I Hate You, Flames, Moths

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Kissing, Essence, Dating

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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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• Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Praise

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• one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Make It Count

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love is three quarters curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Romance, Curiosity

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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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• The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men, Order, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men, His Love, Fool

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• Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Life, Men, Unhappy

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova (Preface, p. 10 in 2001 translation of Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli), 1822.

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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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• If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Four, Lovers, Aries

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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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• 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.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Memories, Heart, Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't conquer, I submit.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Conquer, Submit

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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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