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


Giacomo Casanova

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GIACOMO CASANOVA Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most cer...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Be the flame, not the moth.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and o...
GIACOMO CASANOVA In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, ...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who k...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I don't conquer, I submit.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becom...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Love is three quarters curiosity.
GIACOMO CASANOVA In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: "The blame lies ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Marriage is the tomb of love
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is ...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Marriage is the tomb of love.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov...
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole t...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so rea...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducin...
GIACOMO CASANOVA We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covere...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most cer...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Be the flame, not the moth.
GIACOMO CASANOVA The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and ther...
GIACOMO CASANOVA You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of c...
GIACOMO CASANOVA As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as...
GIACOMO CASANOVA As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and o...
GIACOMO CASANOVA In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
GIACOMO CASANOVA The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my...
GIACOMO CASANOVA In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to re...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence,...
GIACOMO CASANOVA one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who k...
GIACOMO CASANOVA God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not con...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I don't conquer, I submit.
GIACOMO CASANOVA Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their mo...
GIACOMO CASANOVA By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I...
GIACOMO CASANOVA lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becom...
GIACOMO CASANOVA The source of love, as I learned later, is a curiosity which, combined with the inclination which na...
GIACOMO CASANOVA For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not w...
GIACOMO CASANOVA You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels...
GIACOMO CASANOVA The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Love is three quarters curiosity.
GIACOMO CASANOVA In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: "The blame lies ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Marriage is the tomb of love
GIACOMO CASANOVA I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducin...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it,...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Marriage is the tomb of love.
GIACOMO CASANOVA Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
GIACOMO CASANOVA Man is free, but not if he doesn't believe it
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ADRIAN CASANOVA We got swept. ... We are angry, disappointed, displeased. All those things. That's how it is when yo...
ADRIAN CASANOVA He would be the most consistent guy on the staff. He doesn't have overpowering pitches, but he knows...
ADRIAN CASANOVA He would do whatever the coaches asked. That's what the good ones do, understand their role and acco...
ADRIAN CASANOVA She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the...
JACQUES CASANOVA It doesn't just have to be Disney and Bloomberg and BBC World News that are providers.
FRANK CASANOVA This time next year you're going to see QuickTime in places you'd never expect to find it.
FRANK CASANOVA It's not just in the purview of big media organization. It's now brought to the masses, as happened ...
FRANK CASANOVA Fire numbers and acres did not really tell the true story of what type of situation we really had.
KIRK CASANOVA The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep th...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI . . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, spli...
GIACOMO PUCCINI May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and p...
GIACOMO MEYERBEER Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it ta...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all hi...
GIACOMO PUCCINI Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to re...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly dis...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or conceal...
GIACOMO PUCCINI Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
GIACOMO MEYERBEER Quella vita ch'è una cosa bella, non è la vita che si conosce, ma quella che non si conosce; non l...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high a...
GIACOMO PUCCINI Art is a kind of illness.
GIACOMO PUCCINI People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not
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GIACOMO LEOPARDI No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance
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While putting thought in chains again --
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