Giacomo Casanova Short Quotes

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Those who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.

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

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

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

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

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

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Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses.

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Happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses.

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Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

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

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

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

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

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Marriage is a sacrament which I detest…Because it is the tomb of love.

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

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One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.

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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised.

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We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble.

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

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

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

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Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.

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

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

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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.

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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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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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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.

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

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