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Last words, according to his friend the Prince de Ligne (Mémoires et mélanges historiques et littéraires, book IV, p. 42 http://www.google.com/books?id=upYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA42&q=%22Grand+Dieu%22, translated for instance in: The Freeman, p. 224 http://www.google.com/books?id=mmkQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Great+God%22+%22and+I+die+as+a+Christian%22)

“The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.”

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Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 9, chapter 7, p. 174
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“[Matrimony] is the grave of love.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 5 (In London and Moscow), chap. 8 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/chapter106.html (“She won’t believe it, as she knows my horror for the sacrament of matrimony.” “How is that?” “I hate it because it is the grave of love.”) Referenced

“The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance of the harm inflicted on him; forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“Nothing is so catching as the plague; now, fanaticism, no matter of what nature, is only the plague of the human mind.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.”

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Giacomo Casanova

The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10 Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.) Referenced

“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. 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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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”

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Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 7, p. 143
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“I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 10, p. 274
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“Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova. ] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”

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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1 (Venetian Years), chap. 14 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/chapter14.html Referenced

“[Marriage] is the tomb of love.”

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Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 9, chap. 8, p. 208 ("She will not believe it, for she knows too well that marriage is a sacrament which I detest." "Why?" "Because it is the tomb of love.")
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“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is”

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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 1
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“If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 4, p. 94
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“This extremely interesting girl, after giving me a single glance from her beautiful eyes, stubbornly refused to look at me again. My vanity at once made me think that it was only so that I would be at full liberty to study her impeccable beauty. It was on this girl that I instantly set my sights, as if all Europe were only a seraglio provided for my pleasures.”

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Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 2, p. 19
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