Giacomo Casanova

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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

— Giacomo Casanova

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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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