Giacomo Casanova

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#pleasure #life

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #freedom

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#sadness #death

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#character #countenance #decision #detected #easily

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

— Giacomo Casanova

#course #delights #hatred #his #kills

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#feel #formerly #had #i #laugh

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. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#beings #even #himself #his #man

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #brought #censure #god #happiness