Giacomo Casanova said this quote

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

~ Giacomo Casanova

lies, truth, loveI 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 it's charms.

~ Giacomo Casanova

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.

~ Giacomo Casanova

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

~ Giacomo Casanova