“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.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: truth
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By recollecting the pleasures I have had
“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.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: time
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I always made my food congenial to
“I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.”
— Giacomo Casanova
Author: Giacomo Casanova
Category: health
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I learned very early that our health
“I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: health
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I have often met with happiness after
“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: happiness
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright
“My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: success
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As to the deceit perpetrated upon women,
“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.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: women
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Marriage is the tomb of love.
“Marriage is the tomb of love.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: marriage
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I always made my food congenial to
“I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.”
— Giacomo Casanova
Author: Giacomo Casanova
Category: food
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The man who has sufficient power over
“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.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: power
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It is only necessary to have courage,
“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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Category: strength
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