Italian - Celebrity | April 2, 1725 - June 4, 1798
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Giacomo Casanova
GodGreatKnowPrinciplesWithout
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
HealthFoodConstitutionAlwaysMade
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
DeathI AmMeDangerousToo Much
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.
GoodIntelligenceStupidityFools
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
HealthMyselfFoodEarlyPhysician
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.
GoodCharacterDecisionEvilOthers
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
GodRespectTimeActionDoingWrong
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
DeathLieMeFeelDoubtDead
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.
LifeAgeHistoryMemoryMy Life
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.
MemoryMindHumanExistenceOrder
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
GoodNeverReasonAlwaysFresh
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
LifeMy LifeWorthySubject
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