We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
More Quotes from Giacomo Casanova:
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.Giacomo Casanova
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.
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In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds The blame lies entirely with the female sex for bewitching his mind and enslaving his heart. Oh, seducing sex Source of pain Let a poor innocent person go in peace.
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
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I 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 its charms.
Giacomo Casanova
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova
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