The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: humor
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: humor
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: inspirational
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: inspirational
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.
Giacomo CasanovaLove is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo CasanovaThere is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
Giacomo CasanovaLove is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: love
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: hope
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: life-and-living
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