Giacomo Casanova Quotes

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

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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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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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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

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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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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

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Be the flame, not the moth.

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