Quote #24

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.]

More from Giacomo Casanova

  1. Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]
  2. Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.]
  3. [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 mu…
  4. [Marriage] is the tomb of love.
  5. 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…
  6. [Matrimony] is the grave of love.
  7. 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…
  8. [T]hey who do not love [life] do not deserve it.

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