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
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[.
art fall men
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
witty men fool
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
wise men waiting
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
passion men liberty
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
men order firsts
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
men unhappy different
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
believe men
Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]
believe destiny men
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.
life men unhappy
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.
believe men agents
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.
men joy despair
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
men design succeed
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.