Quotes by : Giacomo Casanova

What do you want to say to me?’‘Nothing—just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about....

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

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

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect,....

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance....

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

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

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

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what....

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