[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it. - Giacomo Casanova

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.]

[<nowiki/>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.

Happy are those who know how to obtain pleasures without injury to anyone; insane are those who fancy that the Almighty can enjoy the sufferings, the pains, the fasts and abstinences which they offer to Him as a sacrifice,