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Giacomo Casanova was an Italian adventurer, writer, and philosopher, born on April 2, 1725, in Venice. He is renowned for his memoirs, 'Histoire de ma vie', which provide a vivid and sometimes scandalous account of his numerous sexual escapades and travels across Europe. Casanova was a man of many talents, involved in various endeavors including diplomacy, espionage, and the arts.

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All Men Ifs Fool Pleasure Love May Mind Reason Doe Giving

Famous Giacomo Casanova Quotes

“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.”

Men Mind Lasts Desire Materials Offers Witty Wit Enjoyment Charm Ugliness Captivated

Author:Giacomo Casanova

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

Liberty Madness

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

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

Pain Desire Pleasure Sweet Enjoyment Torment

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.”

Men World May Different Individual Effects Produce Circumstances Unhappy Unhappiness Temperament

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

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

Giving Moments Sadness Disease Affection Blow That Moment Our Love

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

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

Self Confidence Self Confidence Useless Have Courage

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Way Love Mind Lying Ignorant Charm Introducing

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

Ifs Kind Doe Real Sometimes Lying Love Is Pleasure Fantasy Mere Arise Sensuality Sensual Immortal Real Love Stale Sensual Pleasure

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

World Wells Success Evil Dark Moral Gone This World Misfortunes Congratulations Dark Days

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Men Moments Action Passion Liberty Please Slave

Book:The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

“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.”

Has Beens Done Courses Evil Be Good Agents Confession Free Agents

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Feels Past Enjoy Pleasure Laughing Trouble Remembrance

Book:The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

“I don't conquer, I submit.”

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“Love is three quarters curiosity.”

Love Romance Three Love Is Curiosity Quarters

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

Kind Honest Fool Mets Fellows Stupidity Characteristics Good Sense

Book:The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

“The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.”

Men Waiting Wise Balance Mets Sufficient

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Steps Ought Mets Mercy Vote Passing Passings Ruins Thank God Thanksgiving Censure

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Heart Character Personality Dependent Temperament Constituents Susceptible Head And Heart

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Mind Humans Made Order Memories Human Beings Existence Comparison Analogies Good Memories

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Firsts May Littles Lasts Causes Too Much Dangerous Add Bounds Excess Indigestion

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Feels Whole Facts Felt Born Company Blood Fool Hatred Arise Tribes Unconquerable Blockheads Unconquerable Will

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.”

Giving Has Beens Gratitude Give Me Grateful Fortune Proof Good Fortune

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Eye Wind Reader Aim Memoir Fixed Streams

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

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

Fool Conscience Deceived Amused Knaves Qualms

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Knows Believe May Hands Christian Concern Stronger Silent Philosopher Discussion My Future

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.”

Thinking Men Art Fall Teach Errors Various Great Art Precipice Thinking Man Treading

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.”

Hard Fool Victory Intellect Vulnerable Covered Steel Despised Dupes

Book:The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

“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.”

Excess Physicians Abstinence

Book:The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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

Men Facts Seems Fool Witty Worthy Exploits Gulls

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.”

Mean Action Worship Wicked Injury Endeavour Loathe Worship God Wrong Actions

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Reason Natural Break Air Mere Disposition Acquaintance

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

“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”

Ifs Men Giving Enough Forever Give Me

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

“I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.”

Knows Giving Feelings Felt Existence Being Alone Feeling Lost

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

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

War Christian Dies Philosopher Dying Last Words

Book:The Duel

Source: The Duel

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

Hate Courses Hatred Delight Unhappy Bosoms Nursing

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years

“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.”

Years Age Memories Four Months Circumstances Eight Evoke Story Of My Life

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

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

Fire Rage Sensual Burned Erotic Scorching

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

Men Design Succeed Difficulty Pope Seduction

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

Important Done Feelings Found Sex Born Pleasure Mines Opposites Curiosity Senses Chiefs Occupation Cultivating Good Food

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.”

Mind Beautiful Lovers Resources Enjoyed Charm Beautiful Women

Book:History of My Life

Source: History of My Life

“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.”

Men Way Lying Love Is Men And Women Deceit Hype Dupes

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Ifs Knows Order Principles Minors

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

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

Persons Romance Kissing Essence Dating

Author:Giacomo Casanova

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

Pleasure Four Lovers Fifth My Lover Aries

Author:Giacomo Casanova

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

Facts Good Times Aries Had A Good Time

Author:Giacomo Casanova

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

Men Firsts Order He Man Educate Traveled

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“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.”

Suffering Existence Possibility Punishment Cease Conception Fierce Severe Non Existence

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Easy Loses Memories Forget Results He Man Weak Forgiving Noble Generous Remembrance Forgetfulness Offspring Carelessness

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

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

Men Known Fool His Love

Author:Giacomo Casanova

About the Author

Born: April 2, 1725
Died: June 4, 1798
Known for: Author
Quotes: 109

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