Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Quote by Giacomo Casanova

Topics: Love Quotes

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it...

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it...

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my...

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my...

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could...

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could...

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought...

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought...

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which...

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which...

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the...

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the...

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can...

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can...

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a...

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a...

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them...

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them...

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their...

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their...

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in...

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in...

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt,...

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt,...

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would...

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would...

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His...

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His...

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without...

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without...

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of...

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of...

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do...

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do...

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered...

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered...