Giacomo Casanova

Be the flame, not the moth. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#self-destruction #destruction

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#writing #inspirational

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#life

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. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #truth #love

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#inspirational

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#humor

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#inspirational

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#life

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

— Giacomo Casanova

#humor