Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanovawas an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth2 April 1725
CountryItaly
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[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
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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.
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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.
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When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.
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A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
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Therefore must we pray to God, and believe that He has granted the favour we have been praying for, even when in appearance it seems the reverse.
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[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.
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Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
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I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.
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They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
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I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.