Giacomo Casanova Quotes on Life
-
Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.
-
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
-
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. The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
-
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
-
The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance. I felt myself born for the fair sex, I have ever loved it dearly, and I have been loved by it as often and as much as I could.
-
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
-
[T]hey who do not love [life] do not deserve it.
-
[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.
-
Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses[.]
-
Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses[.]
-
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.]