Giacomo Casanova

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lies, truth, loveI 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 it's charms

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There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments

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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones

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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives

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Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover