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Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is false.


Giacomo Casanova

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GIACOMO CASANOVA Be the flame, not the moth.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as...
GIACOMO CASANOVA As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and o...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
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GIACOMO CASANOVA The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
GIACOMO CASANOVA Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Be the flame, not the moth.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of c...
GIACOMO CASANOVA As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as...
GIACOMO CASANOVA As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and o...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I don't conquer, I submit.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not w...
GIACOMO CASANOVA You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels...
GIACOMO CASANOVA The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Love is three quarters curiosity.
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Marriage is the tomb of love
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GIACOMO CASANOVA I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it,...
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GIACOMO CASANOVA Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
GIACOMO CASANOVA Man is free, but not if he doesn't believe it
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ADRIAN CASANOVA He would be the most consistent guy on the staff. He doesn't have overpowering pitches, but he knows...
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FRANK CASANOVA Fire numbers and acres did not really tell the true story of what type of situation we really had.
KIRK CASANOVA The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep th...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI . . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, spli...
GIACOMO PUCCINI May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and p...
GIACOMO MEYERBEER Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it ta...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all hi...
GIACOMO PUCCINI Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to re...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly dis...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or conceal...
GIACOMO PUCCINI Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
GIACOMO MEYERBEER Quella vita ch'è una cosa bella, non è la vita che si conosce, ma quella che non si conosce; non l...
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GIACOMO LEOPARDI Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again --
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