Giacomo Casanova

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Giacomo Casanova

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

Giacomo Casanova

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giacomo Casanova

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

Giacomo Casanova

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Giacomo Casanova

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Giacomo Casanova

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Giacomo Casanova

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Giacomo Casanova

It is always easy to break one’s word to oneself.

Giacomo Casanova

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.

Giacomo Casanova