Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
“Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
L'amour a toujours été pour moi la plus grande des affaires ou plutôt la seule.
La Vie d'Henri Brulard (1890)
Variant translation: Love has always been the most important business in my life, or rather the only one.
“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”
Marc Norman (1941) Screenwriter
Source: Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) American Vice President and politician
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013) Canadian-American businessman
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/10/17/liberal-arts-are-best-preparation-even-business-career-essay
“One of the most beautiful declarations of love: i would love to have you in my life forever.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Una delle più belle dichiarazioni d'amore: mi piacerebbe averti per sempre nella mia vita.
Source: prevale.net
“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”
Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
William Lever, quoted in C. Wilson, The History of Unilever, London: Cassell, 1954, vol. 1, p. 187; Requoted in Witzel (2004: 166)