The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth. - Giacomo Casanova

Death is a monster which turns away from the great theatre an attentive hearer before the end of the play which deeply interests him, and this is reason enough to hate it. All

In fact, I do not believe there is an honest man alive without some pretension,

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.