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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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Famous Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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

People Ifs Want Faces Laughing Serious Laughter Your Face Making People Laugh

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”

Ifs Looks Wish Audience Laughing Advice Cry Tears Serious Judging Shed Casanova

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.”

Ifs Men Believe Doe Agents Free Agents

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.”

Ifs Government Spirit Cities Wise Tasks Rebellion Great Cities Dormant Dams

Book:History of My Life

Source: History of My Life

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

Ifs Writing Done Written Worthy

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.”

Ifs Men Believe Doe Reason Destiny Agents Granted Attributes Free Agents

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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

Ifs Kind Sports Youth Refuse Folly Inherent Squash

Book:The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

“I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.”

Ifs World Beautiful Artist Loses Saws Judging Drawing Description

Book:History of My Life

Source: History of My Life

“If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.”

Ifs World Should Children Enough Feelings Care Taken Married Should Have Intelligent Guides Possessing Guide Me

Book:History of My Life

Source: History of My Life

About the Author

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

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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: CompleteRelated source material

History of My LifeRelated source material

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian YearsRelated source material

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de SeingaltRelated source material

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and PrisonRelated source material

History of My Life, Vols. I & IIRelated source material

History of My Life, Volumes III & IVRelated source material

The Story of My LifeRelated source material

Memorie scritte da lui medesimoRelated source material

The DuelRelated source material

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