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[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

— 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.

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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[.]

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

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