You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Quote by Giacomo Casanova

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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...

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

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...

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...

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...

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it...

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it...

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.

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,...

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty...

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty...

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to...

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to...

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through,...

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through,...

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

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...

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...

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in...

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in...

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 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...

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before...

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before...

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...