Giacomo Casanova Men Quotations

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

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.

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

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

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

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

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.

Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.

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.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

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

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.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.