128 Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

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

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.