128 Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

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

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

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

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

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

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.