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Giacomo Casanova (Writer)

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.
— Giacomo Casanova love
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
— Giacomo Casanova courage
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.
— Giacomo Casanova art
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
— Giacomo Casanova nature
I 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 its charms.
— Giacomo Casanova love
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
— Giacomo Casanova love
I don't conquer, I submit.
— Giacomo Casanova
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
— Giacomo Casanova art
Love is three quarters curiosity.
— Giacomo Casanova art
Marriage is the tomb of love.
— Giacomo Casanova love
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.
— Giacomo Casanova time
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
— Giacomo Casanova success
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
— Giacomo Casanova life
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.
— Giacomo Casanova life
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
— Giacomo Casanova education
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
— Giacomo Casanova war
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
— Giacomo Casanova passion
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
— Giacomo Casanova life
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
— Giacomo Casanova knowledge
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
— Giacomo Casanova intelligence
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova time
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
— Giacomo Casanova men
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
— Giacomo Casanova war
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
— Giacomo Casanova happiness
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.
— Giacomo Casanova mind
One who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
— Giacomo Casanova mistakes
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova time

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