More from Giacomo Casanova

  1. Nothing is so catching as the plague; now, fanaticism, no matter of what nature, is only the plague of the human mind.
  2. Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes h…
  3. One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
  4. As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; there…
  5. Should anyone bring against me an accusation of sensuality he would be wrong, for all the fierceness of my senses never caused me to neglec…
  6. I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignora…
  7. The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance of the harm inflicted on him; forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling…
  8. I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the hea…

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