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
love lying mind
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
love-is feelings may
Love 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.
lying love-is men
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.
life love-life deserve
Those who do not love life do not deserve it.
four lovers aries
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.
real lying love-is
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.
men fool his-love
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
broken-heart love-is views
Love 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.
beautiful mind lovers
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
love romance curiosity
Love is three quarters curiosity.
appearance believe favour granted pray praying seems therefore
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.
men blessing life-is
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.
men cease
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
appreciate purpose stories
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.