Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who… - Giacomo Casanova
" "Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
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About Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author; also known as Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. He was famous for his elaborate love affairs and his encounters with famous contemporary figures.
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Native Name:
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Alternative Names:
Casanova
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Kazanova
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova di Seingalt
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt
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Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt
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ג'אקומו קאזאנובה
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Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Jacques Casanova
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Dzhiakomo Kasanova
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Джакомо Казанова
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt
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Casanova de Seingalt
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If you refuse me, I shall be compelled to believe that you are cruelly enjoying my misery, and that you have learned in the most accursed school that the best way of preventing a young man from curing himself of an amorous passion is to excite it constantly; but you must agree with me that, to put such tyranny in practice, it is necessary to hate the person it is practised upon, and, if that be so, I ought to call upon my reason to give me the strength necessary to hate you likewise.
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