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
i-hate-you flames moths
Be the flame, not the moth.
conquer submit
I don't conquer, I submit.
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.
tombs
Marriage is the tomb of love.
stories believable
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
knaves fool deceived
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
love-is feelings may
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
taken lamps great-business
I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.
pleasure economy spoil
economy spoils pleasure
sublime should mediocre
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.