You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
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. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
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. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
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. Giacomo Casanova Read Quote
