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
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.
tombs
Marriage is the tomb of love.
life men unhappy
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.
grief woe complaining
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
blow intelligence fool
When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.
pleasure economy spoil
economy spoils pleasure
believe men agents
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.
excess physicians abstinence
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.
exercise laughing might
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.
air reason natural
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
dazzle
The thing is to dazzle
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.
beautiful intelligent praise
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
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.