Italian - Celebrity | April 2, 1725 - June 4, 1798
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
LoveLove IsSometimesKindFantasy
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.
TimePastFeelLaughEnjoyNow
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.
LifeGoodI AmEvilFreeMy Life
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.
LoveWomenMenLove IsWayRule
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.
GoodGratitudePowerMeFriendsWho
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.
MyselfI AmFeelBornFoolsBlood
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.
SuccessGoodMeEvilWorldDark
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
StrengthCourageSelf-ConfidenceOnly
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.
GreatArtRoadsMenThinkingWill
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.
NaturePowerManBalanceWiseWait
Love is three quarters curiosity.
LoveLove IsCuriosityThree
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.
LifeEyesWindAimWillNever
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