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one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

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Giacomo Casanova
Age: 73 †
Born: 1725
Born: January 1
Died: 1798
Died: January 1
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Venice
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Casanova
Kazanova
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
Mistake
Makes
Nothing
Mistakes

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A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
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[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.
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They are the follies inherent to youth I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
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My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
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We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
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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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Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
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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 avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
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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.
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