Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

Explore a curated collection of 24 quotes by Giacomo Casanova. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create n — Giacomo Casanova
lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing i — Giacomo Casanova
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives. — Giacomo Casanova
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. — Giacomo Casanova
Be the flame, not the moth. — Giacomo Casanova
To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyo — Giacomo Casanova
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives. — Giacomo Casanova
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid t — Giacomo Casanova
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. — Giacomo Casanova
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. — Giacomo Casanova
Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and — Giacomo Casanova
Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by t — Giacomo Casanova
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe — Giacomo Casanova
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. — Giacomo Casanova
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing — Giacomo Casanova
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upr — Giacomo Casanova
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any — Giacomo Casanova
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. — Giacomo Casanova
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 — Giacomo Casanova