The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Believability, Possibility, Storytelling, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Achievement, Gratification, Persistence, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Beauty, Intelligence, Praise, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Happiness, Life, Treasure, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Liberty, Love, Madness, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Choice, Responsibility, Self-determination, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Contradiction, Humor, Perception, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Ethics, Paradox, Truth, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Pleasure, Reciprocity, Relationships, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Change, Emotion, Love, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Emotion, Existence, Knowledge, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Courage, Self-confidence, Strength, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Humor, Self-awareness, Writing, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Enjoyment, Pain, Torment, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Expectations, Poetry, Quality, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Agency, Belief, Freedom, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Diet, Health, self-care, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Deception, Humor, Intelligence, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Autobiography, Identity, Self-reflection, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Consequences, Hatred, Time, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Blessing, Happiness, Life, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Deception, Intelligence, Victory, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giacomo Casanova, Faith, Freedom, Man, 0 Giacomo Casanova Copy
It’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter. Scott Belsky Entrepreneur
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. David Hilbert Mathematician · Germany
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. Georg Cantor Mathematician · Germany
