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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

“I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.”

Pleasure Health

Book:History of My Life, Volumes III & IV

Source: History of My Life, Volumes III & IV

“economy spoils pleasure”

Pleasure Economy Spoil

Book:History of My Life

Source: History of My Life

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

Knows Persons Pleasure Know How Greater Produce Sorrow Philosopher Refuse

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“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.”

Reason Might Enjoy Pleasure Laughing Exercise Reasonable Misfortunes Destroying Defiance

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

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

Pleasure Hardest Sweetest

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

About the Author

Born: April 2, 1725
Died: June 4, 1798
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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

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