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Be the flame, not the moth.
Giacomo Casanova
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Giacomo Casanova
Age: 73 †
Born: 1725
Born: January 1
Died: 1798
Died: January 1
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova di Seingalt
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt
ג'אקומו קאזאנובה
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Jacques Casanova
Dzhiakomo Kasanova
Джакомо Казанова
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt
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I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.
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I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
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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.
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Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.
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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
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For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
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When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
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The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
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We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
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A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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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.
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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
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As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
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If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.
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