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
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.
mistake making-mistakes make-it-count
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
sex opposites feelings
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.
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.
i-hate-you flames moths
Be the flame, not the moth.
conquer submit
I don't conquer, I submit.
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.
gratitude mean heart
There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.
gratitude grateful giving
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
facts good-times aries
Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.
reason cease
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
cheating practice fool
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.
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.