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Giacomo Casanova quotes: Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.

If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

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

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

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: [Matrimony] is the grave of love.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.

Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: I don't conquer, I submit.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Marriage is the tomb of love.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: economy spoils pleasure

economy spoils pleasure

Giacomo Casanova quotes: one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Giacomo Casanova quotes: It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

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

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: 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.

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

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: [W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.

[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Be the flame, not the moth.

Be the flame, not the moth.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

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

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

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: The thing is to dazzle

The thing is to dazzle

Giacomo Casanova quotes: The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: 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

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 quotes: I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

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

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

Giacomo Casanova quotes: Love is three quarters curiosity.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: 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

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 quotes: THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

Giacomo Casanova quotes: When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Giacomo Casanova quotes: In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.