Giacomo Casanova: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

Giacomo Casanova era avventuriero, scrittore, diplomatico, agente segreto italiano. Frasi in inglese.
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“Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 7, p. 143
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“I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 10, p. 274
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“Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer.”

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Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“[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.”

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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1 (Venetian Years), chap. 14 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/chapter14.html
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“[Marriage] is the tomb of love.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 9, chap. 8, p. 208 ("She will not believe it, for she knows too well that marriage is a sacrament which I detest." "Why?" "Because it is the tomb of love.")
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“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is”

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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 1
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“If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 4, p. 94
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“This extremely interesting girl, after giving me a single glance from her beautiful eyes, stubbornly refused to look at me again. My vanity at once made me think that it was only so that I would be at full liberty to study her impeccable beauty. It was on this girl that I instantly set my sights, as if all Europe were only a seraglio provided for my pleasures.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 2, p. 19
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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.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 11, chap. 4, p. 112

“Should anyone bring against me an accusation of sensuality he would be wrong, for all the fierceness of my senses never caused me to neglect any of my duties.”

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Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it”

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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
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“Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.”

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Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.”

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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 34
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