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The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
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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We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
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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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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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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
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Man is free yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
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