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Category: Giacomo Casanova

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.

Giving, Me, Know

Giacomo Casanova

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Nature, Wise, Man

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 substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Gratitude, Friends, Good

Giacomo Casanova

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

Health, Constitution

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 physician except myself.

Health, Myself, Physician

Giacomo Casanova

I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Good, Stupidity, Kind

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.

Myself, God, Thank God

Giacomo Casanova

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Courage, Self-Confidence

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.

Time, God, Action

Giacomo Casanova

The longer you remain in Rome,’ said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.

gossip, reputation

Giacomo Casanova

Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

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 remains silent.