Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

Blessing

Life Is

Men

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

Beautiful

Lovers

Mind

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.

Inspirational

Self

Teacher

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Men

Mind

Witty

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Laughing

Past

Remembrance

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.

Cheating

Fool

Practice

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

Desire

Pain

Sweet

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.

Exercise

Laughing

Might

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

Blow

Giving

Sadness

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

Minors

Order

Principles

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Abstinence

Action

Air

Appreciate

Aries

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Believable

Believe

Blessing

Blow

Brilliant

Broken Heart

Cease

Character

Cheating

Constitution

Dating

Dazzle

Desire

Despair

Destiny

Different

Doe

Done

Doubt

Drawing

Eight

Essence

Evil

Excellent

Excess

Exercise

Eye

Facts

Fall

Father

Firsts

Fixed

Fool

Giving

Good Luck

Good Times

Great Business

Hardest

Hate

Hatred

Heart

Ignorant

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Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

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.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

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.

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

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.

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

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

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