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I 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 Casanova

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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

Woman is like a book, which, good or bad, must at first please us by the frontispiece.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses[.]

Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses[.]

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.]

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