Giacomo Casanova Quotes

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and o...

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of int...

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to re...

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

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

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happ...

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not w...

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who k...

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, ...

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

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

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the ...

What do you want to say to me?’‘Nothing—just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about ...

It is always easy to break one’s word to oneself.

The source of love, as I learned later, is a curiosity which, combined with the inclination which na...

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, ...

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...

Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjo...

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a ...

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has...

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in m...

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to ...

Be the flame, not the moth.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot...

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affecti...

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence,...

Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained...

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise the...

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it,...

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.