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The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance. I felt myself born for the fair sex, I have ever loved it dearly, and I have been loved by it as often and as much as I could.
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A beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
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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.
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Happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses.
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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.
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Nothing is so catching as the plague; now, fanaticism, no matter of what nature, is only the plague of the human mind.
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We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble.
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I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
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I have written the history of my life, and I have a perfect right to do so; but am I wise in throwing it before a public of which I know nothing but evil? No, I am aware it is sheer folly, but I want to be busy, I want to laugh, and why should I deny myself this gratification?
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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.
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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.
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Born:
April 2, 1725
Died:
June 4, 1798
(aged 73)
Bio:
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.
Known for:
The life and memoirs of Casanova
The Many Loves of Casanova
Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests
The Story of My Life Vol. 6 Spanish Passions
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