128 Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

I don't conquer, I submit.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

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

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.