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Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.

— 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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