Giacomo Casanova Quotations | Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

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

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.