Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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• Be the flame, not the moth.

  Giacomo Casanova

  I Hate You, Flames, Moths

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• one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Make It Count

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Facts, Good Times, Aries

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• Love is three quarters curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Romance, Curiosity

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Praise

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• I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Liberty, Madness

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I don't conquer, I submit.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Conquer, Submit

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blow, Intelligence, Fool

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• Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Cheating, Practice, Fool

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• Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sweet, Pain, Desire

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.766, Simon and Schuster

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• We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Reason, Cease

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

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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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• 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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• 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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