Giacomo Casanova

Celebrity

1725-04-02

Books by Giacomo Casanova

Mémoires
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Memoirs of Casanova
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Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

Be the flame, not the moth.
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It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.
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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
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As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
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If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
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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.
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lies, truth, loveI 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 it's charms.
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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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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
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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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As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
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It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.
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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
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Be the flame, not the moth.
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lies, truth, loveI 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 it's charms.
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If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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