If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious. Giacomo Casanova More Quotes by Giacomo Casanova More Quotes From Giacomo Casanova If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. Giacomo Casanova worthy done writing The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth. Giacomo Casanova principles doe lying There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives. Giacomo Casanova our-lives destiny shapes If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing. Giacomo Casanova intelligent taken children The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced. Giacomo Casanova aries four lovers 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. Giacomo Casanova broken-heart views love The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. Giacomo Casanova men order firsts 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. Giacomo Casanova gratitude grateful giving Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty. Giacomo Casanova intelligent praise beautiful Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Giacomo Casanova destiny men believe [Matrimony] is the grave of love. Giacomo Casanova graves matrimony Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. Giacomo Casanova passion liberty men 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 fixed eye wind A man who makes known his love by words is a fool. Giacomo Casanova his-love fool men I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. Giacomo Casanova shining evil character Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool. Giacomo Casanova fool practice cheating I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. Giacomo Casanova unconquerable-will hatred blood I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding. Giacomo Casanova succeed writing laughing We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. Giacomo Casanova woe grief complaining [Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge. Giacomo Casanova judging advice laughing
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