Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
Giacomo CasanovaI saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.
Giacomo CasanovaI know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
Giacomo CasanovaLove is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
Giacomo CasanovaHappy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
Giacomo Casanova