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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Kissing, Essence, Dating

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blow, Intelligence, Fool

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• I don't conquer, I submit.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Conquer, Submit

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Four, Lovers, Aries

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• The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Eye, Wind, Fixed

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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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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• As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Lying, Love Is, Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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