If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious. Giacomo Casanova More Quotes by Giacomo Casanova More Quotes From Giacomo Casanova I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. Giacomo Casanova ruins thanksgiving thank-god Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. Giacomo Casanova personality heart character When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. Giacomo Casanova despair joy men In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. Giacomo Casanova wicked action mean When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope. Giacomo Casanova succeed design men From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. Giacomo Casanova sadness blow giving The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. Giacomo Casanova philosopher pleasure sorrow I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing. Giacomo Casanova great-business lamps taken Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses. Giacomo Casanova unhappy men life I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself. Giacomo Casanova deals There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments. Giacomo Casanova different unhappy men We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble Giacomo Casanova fool victory trouble The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back. Giacomo Casanova government cities wise When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime. Giacomo Casanova mediocre sublime should 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 fool victory steel Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. Giacomo Casanova subjects worthy life-is [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[. Giacomo Casanova I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. Giacomo Casanova fool honest stupidity 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 excess may add 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. Giacomo Casanova ignorant love lying
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