Giacomo Casanova Quotes

• Love is three quarters curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

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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

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• The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

  Giacomo Casanova

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  Tags in Natural, Disposition

• 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

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  Tags in Memoirs, Reader

• I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Physiognomist, Tendencies

• My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

  Giacomo Casanova

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  Tags in Self, Existence

• I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Topics in God

  Tags in Myself, Thankful

• I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, Stages

• I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

  Giacomo Casanova

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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

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  Tags in Self -Love

• Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

  Giacomo Casanova

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• For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

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

  Giacomo Casanova

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  Tags in Hatred

• God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Topics in God

  Tags in Principle

• God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

  Giacomo Casanova

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Giacomo Casanova (38)

Birth:	2nd April, 1725
Death:	4th June, 1798
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Author, Librarian

About

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice, Italy. He was an Italian author and librarian. His autobiography, The Story of My Life, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He often signed his works Jacques Casanova de Seingalt after he began writing in French following his second exile from Venice. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life. He wrote other books include: The Many Loves of Casanova and Icosameron.

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