,,casanova ,,quotes ,,and ,,images ,,from ,,the ,,memoirs ,,of ,,casanova ,,the ,,memoirs ,,of ,,casanova ,by ,jacques ,casanova de ,seingalt ,a man never argues well except when his purse is well filled ,accepted the compliment for what it was worth ,accomplice of the slanderer ,advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful ,age1 that cruel and unavoidable disease ,all women1 dear ,leah are for sale ,all-powerful lever1 gold ,alms given in public are sure to be accompanied by vanity ,anger and reason do not belong to the same family ,angry man always thinks himself right ,at my age ,i could not be allowed to have any opinions ,augurs could never look at each other without laughing ,awkward or miserly1 and therefore unworthy of love ,axiom that neglected right is lost right ,beauty is the only unpardonable offence in your eyes ,beauty without wit offers love nothing ,bed is a capital place to get an appetite ,best plan in this world is to be astonished at nothing ,beware of the man of one book ,calumnies are easy to utter but hard to refute ,cherishing my grief ,clever man deceives by telling the truth ,commissaries of ,chastity ,confession ,contempt of life ,could tell a good story without laughing ,criticism only grazed the skin and never wounded deeply ,delights are in proportion to the privations we have suffered ,desire is only kept alive by being denied ,desire to make a great fuss like a great man ,despair which is not without some sweetness ,despised ignoramus becomes an enemy ,diminish the tale of your years instead of increasing it ,distance is relative ,divinities--novelty and singularity ,do not mind people believing anything1 provided it is not true ,do their duty1 and to live in peace and sweet ignorance ,economy in pleasure is not to my taste ,emotion is infectious ,essence of freedom consists in thinking you have it ,everything hung from an if ,exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear ,fanaticism1 no matter of what nature1 is only the plague ,fatal desire for luxury and empty show spoils all ,favourite passion has always been vengeance ,first motive is always self-interest ,foolish enough to write the truth ,for in the night1 you know1 all cats are grey ,for is love anything else than a kind of curiosity8 ,fortune flouts old age ,found him greater at a distance than close at hand ,gave the ,cardinal de ,rohan the famous necklace ,girl who gave nothing must take nothing ,give yourself up to whatever fate offers to you1 ,government ought never to destroy ancient customs abruptly ,groans1 and prayers1 and blasphemies ,happiness is purely a creature of the imagination ,happiness is not lasting--nor is man ,happy or unhappy from a merely cursory inspection ,happy ignorance6 ,happy age when one's inexperience is one's sole misfortune ,hasty verses are apt to sacrifice wit to rhyme ,he won't be uneasy--he is a philosopher ,hobbes3 of two evils choose the least ,honest old man will not believe in the existence of rascals ,idle questions which are commonly addressed to a traveller ,if this and if that1 and every other if ,if ,i could live my life over again ,if history did not lie ,ignorance is bliss ,ignorant1 who talk about everything right or wrong ,imagine that what they feel themselves others must feel ,it is only fools who complain ,it's too much for honour and too little for love ,jealousy leads to anger1 and anger goes a long way ,knowing that he would not be regretted after his death ,last thing which we learn in all languages is wit ,laugh out of season ,let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth ,lie a sufficient number of times1 one ends by believing it ,light come1 light go ,love always makes men selfish ,look on everything we don't possess as a superfluity ,love fills our minds with idle visions ,love makes no conditions ,made a point of forgetting everything unpleasant ,made a parade of his ,atheism ,man needs so little to console him or to soothe his grief ,marriage without enjoyment is a thorn without roses ,marriage state1 for which ,i felt ,i had no vocation ,married a rich wife1 he repented of having married at all ,mere beauty does not go for much ,most trifling services are assessed at the highest rates ,my spirit and my desires are as young as ever ,my time was too short to write so little ,mystical insinuations ,negligent attire ,never to pass an opinion on any subject ,never wearied himself with too much thinking ,nobody read his books1 but everybody agreed he was learned ',non' is equal to giving the lie ,now ,i am too old to begin curing myself ,obscenity disgusts1 and never gives pleasure ,oh6 wonderful power of self-delusion ,one never knows enough ,owed all its merits to antithesis and paradox ,pardonable weakness1 most of us prefer mine to thine ,passing infidelity1 but not inconstancy ,passion and prejudice cannot reason ,people did not want to know things as they truly were ,people want to know everything1 and they invent ,pigmies mimicking a giant ,pity to sell cheaply what would have to be replaced dearly ,pleasures are realities1 though all too fleeting ,pope1 whom no ,roman can believe to be infallible ,post-masters ,prejudices which had the sanction of the law ,pride is the daughter of folly ,privately indulged in every luxury that he forbade to others ,privilege of a nursing mother ,promising everlasting constancy ,proud nation1 at once so great and so little ,quacks ,rather be your debtor than for you to be mine ,read when ,i am gone ,reading innumerable follies one finds written in such places ,repentance for a good deed ,reproached by his wife for the money he had expended ,rid of our vices more easily than of our follies ,rome the holy1 which thus strives to make all men pederasts ,rumour is only good to amuse fools ,sad symptom of misery which is called a yawn ,sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection ,scold and then forgive ,scrupulously careful not to cheat you in small things ,seldom praised and never blamed ,selfishness1 then1 the universal motor of our actions8 ,shewed his contempt by saying nothing ,sin concealed is half pardoned ,sleep--the very likeness of non-existence ,snatching from poor mortal man the delusions ,soften the hardships of the slow but certain passage to the grave ,stupid servant is more dangerous than a bad one ',sublata lucerna nullum discrimen inter feminas' ,submissive gaze of a captive who glories in his chain ,surface is always the first to interest ,talent of never appearing to be a learned man ,taste and feeling ,tell me whether that contempt of life renders you worthy of it ,there is no cure for death ,there's time enough for that ,time that is given to enjoyment is never lost ,time that destroys marble and brass destroys also the very memory ,time is a great teacher ,timidity is often another word for stupidity ,to know ill is worse than not to know at all ,vengeance is a divine pleasure ,verses which1 like parasites1 steal into a funeral oration ,victims of their good faith ,wash their dirty linen in private ,what is love8 ,when we can feel pity1 we love no longer ,when one is in an ill humour1 everything is fuel for the fire ,whims of the mob and the fancies of the ,republic ,wife worthy of being a mistress ,wiser if they were less witty ,wish is father to the thought ,wit cannot stand before stupidity ,woman has in her tears a weapon ,women are always as old as they look ,women would be either tyrants or slaves ,women often do the most idiotic things out of sheer obstinacy ,world of memories1 without a present and without a future ,would like to shape the laws according to their needs ,wretch treats me so kindly that ,i love him more and more