The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo CasanovaYou will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo CasanovaIf you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
Giacomo CasanovaLove is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo Casanova