Quotes by : Giacomo Casanova

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately....

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

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

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return....

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it,....

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of....

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.....

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make....

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my....

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness....