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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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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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• [Matrimony] is the grave of love.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Graves, Matrimony

  "The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 1894.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Passion, Men, Liberty

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

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• Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Life, Love Life, Deserve

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 2001.

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Four, Lovers, Aries

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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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• I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Lying, Ignorant

  "History of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 1997.

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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 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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• 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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• Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Broken Heart, Views

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men, Design, Succeed

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• It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Confidence, Self, Useless

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

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• Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Hate, Nursing, Hatred

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Writing, Laughing, Succeed

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

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• When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sublime, Should, Mediocre

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.143, JHU Press

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