About Giacomo Casanova: Giacomo Girolamo Casanova is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
Be the flame, not the moth.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
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.
