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+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF
+THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT
+
+by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+EDITOR'S NOTE
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+D.W.
+
+
+
+
+FROM THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE:
+
+
+A series of adventures wilder and more fantastic than the wildest of
+romances, written down with the exactitude of a business diary; a view
+of men and cities from Naples to Berlin, from Madrid and London to
+Constantinople and St. Petersburg; the 'vie intime' of the eighteenth
+century depicted by a man, who to-day sat with cardinals and saluted
+crowned heads, and to morrow lurked in dens of profligacy and crime;
+a book  of confessions penned without reticence and without penitence;
+a record of forty years of "occult" charlatanism; a collection of tales
+of successful imposture, of 'bonnes fortunes', of marvellous escapes,
+of transcendent audacity, told with the humour of Smollett and the
+delicate wit of Voltaire.  Who is there interested in men and letters,
+and in the life of the past, who would not cry, "Where can such a book
+as this be found?"
+
+
+
+
+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+
+
+CONTENTS:
+
+Dec 2001 The Complete Memoires of Jacques Casanova  [JC#31][csnvaxxx.xxx]2981
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v30, Old Age and Death, Casanova  [JC#30][jcagdxxx.xxx]2980
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v29, Florence to Trieste, Casanova[JC#29][jcfltxxx.xxx]2979
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v28, Rome, by Jacques Casanova    [JC#28][jcromxxx.xxx]2978
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v27, Expelled from Spain, Casanova[JC#27][jcexpxxx.xxx]2977
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v26, Spain, by Jacques Casanova   [JC#26][jcspnxxx.xxx]2976
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v25, Russia and Poland, Casanova  [JC#25][jcrplxxx.xxx]2975
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v24, London to Berlin, by Casanova[JC#24][jclbrxxx.xxx]2974
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v23, The English, by J. Casanova  [JC#23][jcengxxx.xxx]2973
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v22, To London, by J. Casanova    [JC#22][jclonxxx.xxx]2972
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v21, South of France, by Casanova [JC#21][jcsfrxxx.xxx]2971
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v20, Milan, by Jacques Casanova   [JC#20][jcmilxxx.xxx]2970
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v19, Back Again to Paris, Casanova[JC#19][jcbprxxx.xxx]2969
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v18, Return to Naples, by Casanova[JC#18][jcrnpxxx.xxx]2968
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v17, Return to Italy, by Casanova [JC#17][jcritxxx.xxx]2967
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v16, Depart Switzerland, Casanova [JC#16][jcdswxxx.xxx]2966
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v15, With Voltaire, by J. Casanova[JC#15][jcvltxxx.xxx]2965
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v14, Switzerland, by J. Casanova  [JC#14][jcswtxxx.xxx]2964
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v13, Holland and Germany, Casanova[JC#13][jchgrxxx.xxx]2963
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v12, Return to Paris, by Casanova [JC#12][jcrprxxx.xxx]2962
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v11, Paris and Holland, Casanova  [JC#11][jcphlxxx.xxx]2961
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v10, Under the Leads, by Casanova [JC#10][jculdxxx.xxx]2960
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v9, The False Nun, by Casanova     [JC#9][jcflnxxx.xxx]2959
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v8, Convent Affairs, Casanova      [JC#8][jcconxxx.xxx]2958
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v7, Venice, by Casanova            [JC#7][jcvenxxx.xxx]2957
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v6, Paris, by Casanova             [JC#6][jcparxxx.xxx]2956
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v5, Milan and Mantua, by Casanova  [JC#5][jcmmnxxx.xxx]2955
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v4, Return to Venice, Casanova     [JC#4][jcrvnxxx.xxx]2954
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v3, Military Career, Casanova      [JC#3][jcmcrxxx.xxx]2953
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v2, A Cleric in Naples, Casanova   [JC#2][jcclnxxx.xxx]2952
+Dec 2001 Memoirs, v1, Childhood, by Casanova         [JC#1][jccldxxx.xxx]2951
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CHILDHOOD
+[JC#1][jccld10.xxx]2951
+
+He ordered me never to open my lips except to answer direct questions,
+and particularly enjoined me never to pass an opinion on any subject,
+because at my age I could not be allowed to have any opinions.
+
+This worthy lady inspired me with the deepest attachment, and she gave me
+the wisest advice.  Had I followed it, and profited by it, my life would
+not have been exposed to so many storms; it is true that in that case, my
+life would not be worth writing.
+
+"The famous precept of the Stoic philosophers," he said to me, "'Sequere
+Deum', can be perfectly explained by these words: 'Give yourself up to
+whatever fate offers to you, provided you do not feel an invincible
+repugnance to accept it.'"
+
+It was ridiculous, of course; but when does man cease to be so?
+
+We get rid of our vices more easily than of our follies.
+
+
+
+
+
+A CLERIC IN NAPLES
+[JC#2][jccln10.xxx]2952
+
+Suffering is inherent in human nature; but we never suffer without
+entertaining the hope of recovery, or, at least, very seldom without such
+hope, and hope itself is a pleasure.  If it happens sometimes that man
+suffers without any expectation of a cure, he necessarily finds pleasure
+in the complete certainty of the end of his life; for the worst, in all
+cases, must be either a sleep arising from extreme dejection, during
+which we have the consolation of happy dreams or the loss of all
+sensitiveness.  But when we are happy, our happiness is never disturbed
+by the thought that it will be followed by grief.  Therefore pleasure,
+during its active period, is always complete, without alloy; grief is
+always soothed by hope.
+
+If this and if that, and every other if was conjured up to torment my
+restless and wretched brain.
+
+People did not want to know things as they truly were, but only as they
+wished them to be.
+
+
+
+
+
+MILITARY CAREER
+[JC#3][jcmcr10.xxx]2953
+
+It is well known that the first result of anger is to deprive the angry
+man of the faculty of reason, for anger and reason do not belong to the
+same family.
+
+Acting on the political axiom that "neglected right is lost right,"....
+
+If you would relish pleasure you must endure pain, and delights are in
+proportion to the privations we have suffered.
+
+In matters of love, as well as in all others, Time is a great teacher.
+
+Love is a sort of madness, I grant that, but a madness over which
+philosophy is entirely powerless; it is a disease to which man is exposed
+at all times, no matter at what age, and which cannot be cured, if he is
+attacked by it in his old age.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+RETURN TO VENICE
+[JC#4][jcrvn10.xxx]2954
+
+I saw how easy it must have been for the ancient heathen priests to
+impose upon ignorant, and therefore credulous mankind.  I saw how easy it
+will always be for impostors to find dupes, and I realized, even better
+than the Roman orator, why two augurs could never look at each other
+without laughing; it was because they had both an equal interest in
+giving importance to the deceit they perpetrated, and from which they
+derived such immense profits.
+
+I excited her pity.  I saw clearly that she no longer loved me; pity is a
+debasing feeling which cannot find a home in a heart full of love, for
+that dreary sentiment is too near a relative of contempt.
+
+When we can feel pity, we love no longer, but a feeling of pity
+succeeding love is the characteristic only of a great and generous mind.
+
+
+
+
+
+MILAN AND MANTUA
+[JC#5][jcmmn10.xxx]2955
+
+O you who despise life, tell me whether that contempt of life renders you
+worthy of it?
+
+I had to acknowledge to myself that I could not speak Latin as well as
+she spoke French, and this was indeed the case.  The last thing which we
+learn in all languages is wit, and wit never shines so well as in jests.
+I was thirty years of age before I began to laugh in reading Terence,
+Plautus and Martial.
+
+Philosophy forbids a man to feel repentance for a good deed, but he must
+certainly have a right to regret such a deed when it is malevolently
+misconstrued, and turned against him as a reproach.
+
+
+
+
+
+PARIS
+[JC#6][jcpar10.xxx]2956
+
+One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems
+painful.  It is a sort of despair which is not without some sweetness.
+
+He could tell a good story without laughing.
+
+It was impossible for him to have any enemies, for his criticism only
+grazed the skin and never wounded deeply.
+
+Like all quacks, he possessed an immense quantity of letters and
+testimonials.
+
+"Every day we reach a moment when we long for sleep, although it be the
+very likeness of non-existence.
+
+Silliness is the daughter of wit.  Therefore it is not a paradox to say
+that the French would be wiser if they were less witty.
+
+Had the talent of never appearing to be a learned man when he was in the
+company of amiable persons who had no pretension to learning or the
+sciences, and he always seemed to endow with intelligence those who
+conversed with him.
+
+
+
+
+
+VENICE
+[JC#7][jcven10.xxx]2957
+
+Misery of knowing that he would not be regretted after his death.
+
+Those words did me good, but a man needs so little to console him or to
+soothe his grief.
+
+I immediately sat down to write to my dear recluse, intending at first to
+write only a few lines, as she had requested me; but my time was too
+short to write so little.  My letter was a screed of four pages, and very
+likely it said less than her note of one short page.
+
+I was in a great measure indebted, two years later, for my imprisonment
+under The Leads of Venice; not owing to his slanders, for I do not
+believe he was capable of that, Jesuit though he was--and even amongst
+such people there is sometimes some honourable feeling--but through the
+mystical insinuations which he made in the presence of bigoted persons.
+I must give fair notice to my readers that, if they are fond of such
+people, they must not read these Memoirs.
+
+Oh! wonderful power of self-delusion!
+
+People want to know everything, and they invent when they cannot guess
+the truth.
+
+
+
+
+
+CONVENT AFFAIRS
+[JC#8][jccon10.xxx]2958
+
+"He has remarked," she added, "that perhaps I do not confess anything to
+him because I did not examine my conscience sufficiently, and I answered
+him that I had nothing to say, but that if he liked I would commit a few
+sins for the purpose of having something to tell him in confession."
+
+I spent those two hours in playing at all the banks, winning, losing, and
+performing all sorts of antics with complete freedom, being satisfied
+that no one could recognize me; enjoying the present, bidding defiance to
+the future, and laughing at all those reasonable beings who exercise
+their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the
+same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
+
+The countess gave me her usual welcome, and, after the thousand nothings
+which it is the custom to utter in society before anything worth saying
+is spoken.
+
+She was at all events exempt from that fearful venom called jealousy--an
+unhappy passion which devours the miserable being who is labouring under
+it, and destroys the love that gave it birth.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE FALSE NUN
+[JC#9][jcfln10.xxx]2959
+
+I could only solace my grief by writing, and Tonine now and again made
+bold to observe that I was cherishing my grief, and that it would be the
+death of me.  I knew myself that I was making my anguish more poignant,
+and that keeping to my bed, continued writing, and no food, would finally
+drive me mad.
+
+That is a very common error, it comes from the mind, because people
+imagine that what they feel themselves others must feel likewise.
+
+The fashion of walking in this place shews how the character of a nation
+changes.  The Venetians of old time who made as great a mystery of love
+as of state affairs, have been replaced by the modern Venetians, whose
+most prominent characteristic is to make a mystery of nothing.
+
+
+
+
+
+UNDER THE LEADS
+[JC#10][jculd10.xxx]2960
+
+Wherever I went I had to tell the story of my escape from The Leads.
+This became a service almost as tiring as the flight itself had been, as
+it took me two hours to tell my tale, without the slightest bit of fancy-
+work; but I had to be polite to the curious enquirers, and to pretend
+that I believed them moved by the most affectionate interest in my
+welfare.  In general, the best way to please is to take the benevolence
+of all with whom one has relation for granted.
+
+Philosophic reader, if you will place yourself for a moment in my
+position, if you will share the sufferings which for fifteen months had
+been my lot, if you think of my danger on the top of a roof, where the
+slightest step in a wrong direction would have cost me my life, if you
+consider the few hours at my disposal to overcome difficulties which
+might spring up at any moment, the candid confession I am about to make
+will not lower me in your esteem; at any rate, if you do not forget that
+a man in an anxious and dangerous position is in reality only half
+himself.
+
+"I must tell your lordship, then, that, the State Inquisitors shut me up
+under the Leads; that after fifteen months and five days of imprisonment
+I succeeded in piercing the roof; that after many difficulties I reached
+the chancery by a window, and broke open the door; afterwards I got to
+St. Mark's Place, whence, taking a gondola which bore me to the mainland,
+I arrived at Paris, and have had the honour to pay my duty to your
+lordship."
+
+
+
+
+
+PARIS AND HOLLAND
+[JC#11][jcphl10.xxx]2961
+
+Oh, you women! beauty is the only unpardonable offence in your eyes.
+Mdlle. Casanova was Esther's friend, and yet she could not bear to hear
+her praised.
+
+Desire is only kept alive by being denied: enjoyment kills it, since one
+cannot desire what one has got.
+
+If one tells a lie a sufficient number of times, one ends by believing
+it.
+
+Nevertheless, the idea of the marriage state, for which I felt I had no
+vocation, made me tremble.
+
+All this was clear enough, but strong passion and prejudice cannot
+reason.
+
+I had all the necessary qualities to second the efforts of the blind
+goddess on my behalf save one--perseverance.  My immoderate life of
+pleasure annulled the effect of all my other qualities.
+
+
+
+
+
+RETURN TO PARIS
+[JC#12][jcrpr10.xxx]2962
+
+The first motive is always self-interest.
+
+On his death-bed he became a Catholic out of deference to the tears of
+his wife; but as his children could not inherit his forty thousand pounds
+invested in England, without conforming to the Church of England, the
+family returned to London, where the widow complied with all the
+obligations of the law of England.  What will people not do when their
+interests are at stake! though in a case like this there is no need to
+blame a person for yielding, to prejudices which had the sanction of the
+law.
+
+I never could believe in the morality of snatching from poor mortal man
+the delusions which make them happy.
+
+
+
+
+
+HOLLAND AND GERMANY
+[JC#13][jchgr10.xxx]2963
+
+Now, when all these troubles have been long over and I can think over
+them calmly, reflecting on the annoyances I experienced at Amsterdam,
+where I might have been so happy, I am forced to admit that we ourselves
+are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so
+unreasonably complain.  If I could live my life over again, should I be
+wiser?   Perhaps; but then I should not be myself.
+
+Lucie was only thirty-three, but she was the wreck of a woman, and women
+are always as old as they look.
+
+An English lady said, I forget in what connection, that a man of honour
+should never risk sitting down to dinner at an hotel unless he felt
+inclined, if necessary, to fight.  The remark was very true at that time,
+when one had to draw the sword for an idle word, and to expose one's self
+to the consequences of a duel, or else be pointed at, even by the ladies,
+with the finger of scorn.
+
+
+
+
+
+SWITZERLAND
+[JC#14][jcswt10.xxx]2964
+
+He was a man of austere virtue, but he took care to hide the austerity
+under a veil of a real and universal kindness.  Undoubtedly he thought
+little of the ignorant, who talk about everything right or wrong, instead
+of remaining silent, and have at bottom only contempt for the learned;
+but he only shewed his contempt by saying nothing.  He knew that a
+despised ignoramus becomes an enemy.
+
+For in the night, you know, all cats are grey.
+
+M. de Voltaire is a man who ought to be known, although, in spite of the
+laws of nature, many persons have found him greater at a distance than
+close at hand.
+
+"How is it," said I, "that he did not attain mature age?"--"Because there
+is no cure for death."
+
+I concluded that a man who wants to be well informed should read first
+and then correct his knowledge by travel.  To know ill is worse than not
+to know at all, and Montaigne says that we ought to know things well.
+
+
+
+
+
+WITH VOLTAIRE
+[JC#15][jcvlt10.xxx]2965
+
+I should have considered that if it had not been for those quips and
+cranks which made me hate him on the third day, I should have thought him
+wholly sublime.  This thought alone should have silenced me, but an angry
+man always thinks himself right.
+
+The essence of freedom consists in thinking you have it.
+
+A nation without superstition would be a nation of philosophers, and
+philosophers would never obey.
+
+"Reading a history is the easier way."--"Yes, if history did not lie."
+
+Love always makes men selfish, since all the sacrifices they make for the
+beloved object are always ultimately referable to their own desires.
+
+
+
+
+
+DEPART SWITZERLAND
+[JC#16][jcdsw10.xxx]2966
+
+Gladness, madam, is the lot of the happy, and sadness the portion of
+souls condemned to everlasting pains.  Be cheerful, then, and you will do
+something to deserve your beauty.
+
+The best plan in this world is to be astonished at nothing.
+
+"What's an evasion?"--"A way of escaping from a difficulty without
+satisfying impertinent curiosity."
+
+I had rather be your debtor than for you to be mine.
+
+
+
+
+
+RETURN TO ITALY
+[JC#17][jcrit10.xxx]2967
+
+For is love anything else than a kind of curiosity? I think not; and what
+makes me certain is that when the curiosity is satisfied the love
+disappears.
+
+Love makes no conditions.
+
+I looked at her with the submissive gaze of a captive who glories in his
+chain.
+
+He had never married, and when asked the reason would reply that he knew
+too well that women would be either tyrants or slaves, and that he did
+not want to be a tyrant to any woman, nor to be under any woman's orders.
+
+I paid a second time, laughing at the clever rascal who had taken me in
+so thoroughly.  Such are the lessons of life; always full of new
+experiences, and yet one never knows enough.
+
+
+
+
+
+Return to Naples
+[JC#18][jcrnp10.xxx]2968
+
+"The time will come," said I, "when you will diminish the tale of your
+years instead of increasing it."
+
+I then felt prepared for all hazards, and was quite calm, but my
+unfortunate companion continued to pour forth his groans, and prayers,
+and blasphemies, for all that goes together at Naples as at Rome.  I
+could do nothing but compassionate him; but in spite of myself I could
+not help laughing, which seemed to vex the poor abbe.
+
+After the game we danced in spite of the prohibition of the Pope, whom no
+Roman can believe to be infallible, for he forbids dancing and permits
+games of chance.  His successor Ganganelli followed the opposite course,
+and was no better obeyed.
+
+Pride is the daughter of folly, and always keeps its mother's nature.
+
+But I think he's a robber, and a dangerous robber, too.  I know it,
+because he seems so scrupulously careful not to cheat you in small
+things.
+
+
+
+
+
+BACK AGAIN TO PARIS
+[JC#19][jcbpr10.xxx]2969
+
+It is only fools who complain.
+
+....citing the opinion of St. Clement Alexandrinus that the seat of shame
+is in the shirt.
+
+Blondel regards his wife as his mistress.  He says that that keeps the
+flame of love alight, and that as he never had a mistress worthy of being
+a wife, he is delighted to have a wife worthy of being a mistress.
+
+
+
+
+
+MILAN
+[JC#20][jcmil10.xxx]2970
+
+If you have not experienced the feelings I describe, dear reader, I pity
+you, and am forced to conclude that you must have been either awkward or
+miserly, and therefore unworthy of love.
+
+He was an amusing companion for anyone who knew the sublime poet, and
+could appreciate his numerous and rare beauties.  Nevertheless he made me
+privately give in my assent to the proverb, Beware of the man of one
+book.
+
+"She makes me happy," he added; "and though she brought me no dower, I
+seem to be a richer man, for she has taught me to look on everything we
+don't possess as a superfluity."
+
+Timidity is often another word for stupidity.
+
+Though what she said was perfectly reasonable, it stung me to the quick;
+when one is in an ill humour, everything is fuel for the fire.
+
+She replied wittily and gracefully to all the questions which were
+addressed to her.  True, what she said was lost on the majority of her
+auditors--for wit cannot stand before stupidity.
+
+
+
+
+
+SOUTH OF FRANCE
+[JC#21][jcsfr10.xxx]2971
+
+When I had thus successfully accomplished my designs by means of the all-
+powerful lever, gold, which I knew how to lavish in time of need, I was
+once more free for my amours.
+
+"We have enjoyed ourselves," said Marcoline, "and time that is given to
+enjoyment is never lost."
+
+Women often do the most idiotic things out of sheer obstinacy; possibly
+they deceive even themselves, and act in good faith; but unfortunately,
+when the veil falls from before their eyes, they see but the profound
+abyss into which their folly had plunged them.
+
+"I hope you will forgive the ignorance of these poor people, who would
+like to shape the laws according to their needs."
+
+
+
+
+
+TO LONDON
+[JC#22][jclon10.xxx]2972
+
+Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.
+
+I owe no man an account of my thoughts, deeds, and words, nature had
+implanted in me a strong dislike to this brother of mine, and his conduct
+as a man and a priest, and, above all, his connivance with Possano, had
+made him so hateful to me that I should have watched him being hanged
+with the utmost indifference, not to say with the greatest pleasure.  Let
+everyone have his own principles and his own passions, and my favourite
+passion has always been vengeance.
+
+"She knows my horror for the sacrament of matrimony."--"How is that?"--"I
+hate it because it is the grave of love."
+
+Our conversation lasted three-quarters of an hour, and was composed of
+those frivolous observations and idle questions which are commonly
+addressed to a traveller.
+
+She had cause for complaint, for marriage without enjoyment is a thorn
+without roses.  She was passionate, but her principles were stronger than
+her passions, or else she would have sought for what she wanted
+elsewhere.
+
+I knew how the most trifling services are assessed at the highest rates;
+and herein lies the great secret of success in the world.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE ENGLISH
+[JC#23][jceng10.xxx]2973
+
+That very evening I began my visits, and judged from my welcome that my
+triumph was nigh at hand.  But love fills our minds with idle visions,
+and draws a veil over the truth.  The fortnight went by without my even
+kissing her hand, and every time I came I brought some expensive gift,
+which seemed cheap to me when I obtained such smiles of gratitude
+in exchange.
+
+Proud nation, at once so great and so little.
+
+When I got to this abode of misery and despair, a hell, such as Dante
+might have conceived, a crowd of wretches, some of whom were to be hanged
+in the course of the week, greeted me by deriding my elegant attire.
+I did not answer them, and they began to get angry and to abuse me.
+The gaoler quieted them by saying that I was a foreigner and did not
+understand English, and then took me to a cell, informing me how much
+it would cost me, and of the prison rules, as if he felt certain that
+I should make a long stay.
+
+
+
+
+
+LONDON TO BERLIN
+[JC#24][jclbr10.xxx]2974
+
+If you want to discover the character of a man, view him in health and
+freedom; a captive and in sickness he is no longer the same man.
+
+She smiled and said that one trunk would be ample for all their
+possessions, as they had resolved to sell all superfluities. As I had
+seen some beautiful dresses, fine linen, and exquisite lace, I could
+not refrain from saying that it would be a great pity to sell cheaply
+what would have to be replaced dearly.
+
+As old age steals on a man he is never tired of dwelling again and again
+on the incidents of his past life, in spite of his desire to arrest the
+sands which run out so quickly.
+
+
+
+
+
+RUSSIA AND POLAND
+[JC#25][jcrpl10.xxx]2975
+
+In those days all Russians with any pretensions to literature read
+nothing but Voltaire, and when they had read all his writings they
+thought themselves as wise as their master. To me they seemed pigmies
+mimicking a giant.  I told them that they ought to read all the books
+from which Voltaire had drawn his immense learning, and then, perhaps,
+they might become as wise as he.  I remember the saying of a wise man
+at Rome: "Beware of the man of one book."
+
+Calumnies are easy to utter but hard to refute.
+
+When the prince saw how happy I was with my Zaira, he could not help
+thinking how easily happiness may be won; but the fatal desire for
+luxury and empty show spoils all, and renders the very sweets of life
+as bitter as gall.
+
+But my surprise may be imagined when I saw that the father and mother of
+the child were in an ecstasy of joy; they were certain that the babe had
+been carried straight to heaven.  Happy ignorance!
+
+Ever since I have known this home of frost and the cold north wind,
+I laugh when I hear travelling Russians talking of the fine climate of
+their native country.  However, it is a pardonable weakness, most of us
+prefer "mine" to "thine."
+
+
+
+
+
+SPAIN
+[JC#26][jcspn10.xxx]2976
+
+I thought myself skilled in physiognomy, and concluded that she was not
+only perfectly happy, but also the cause of happiness.  But here let me
+say how vain a thing it is for anyone to pronounce a man or woman to be
+happy or unhappy from a merely cursory inspection.
+
+"Where ignorance is bliss!"
+
+I delivered all my introductions, beginning with the letter from Princess
+Lubomirska to the Count of Aranda.  The count had covered himself with
+glory by driving the Jesuits out of Spain.  He was more powerful than the
+king himself, and never went out without a number of the royal guardsmen
+about him, whom he made to sit down at his table.  Of course all the
+Spaniards hated him, but he did not seem to care much for that.  A
+profound politician, and absolutely resolute and firm, he privately
+indulged in every luxury that he forbade to others, and did not care
+whether people talked of it or not.
+
+Fair and beloved France, that went so well in those days, despite
+'lettres de cachet', despite 'corvees', despite the people's misery and
+the king's "good pleasure," dear France, where art thou now?  Thy
+sovereign is the people now, the most brutal and tyrannical sovereign in
+the world.  You have no longer to bear the "good pleasure" of the
+sovereign, but you have to endure the whims of the mob and the fancies of
+the Republic--the ruin of all good Government.  A republic presupposes
+self-denial and a virtuous people; it cannot endure long in our selfish
+and luxurious days.
+
+
+
+
+
+EXPELLED FROM SPAIN
+[JC#27][jcexp10.xxx]2977
+
+I was foolish enough to write the truth.  Never give way to this
+temptation, if it assails you.
+
+I was much pleased with the husband's mother, who was advanced in years
+but extremely intelligent.  She had evidently made a point of forgetting
+everything unpleasant in the past history of her son's wife.
+
+Nina was wonderfully beautiful; but as it has always been my opinion that
+mere beauty does not go for much, I could not understand how a viceroy
+could have fallen in love with her to such an extent.
+
+If these Memoirs, only written to console me in the dreadful weariness
+which is slowly killing me in Bohemia--and which, perhaps, would kill me
+anywhere, since, though my body is old, my spirit and my desires are as
+young as ever--if these Memoirs are ever read, I repeat, they will only
+be read when I am gone, and all censure will be lost on me.
+
+Is selfishness, then, the universal motor of our actions?
+I am afraid it is.
+
+Time that destroys marble and brass destroys also the very memory of what
+has been.
+
+
+
+
+
+ROME
+[JC#28][jcrom10.xxx]2978
+
+Emotion is infectious.  Betty wept, Sir B---- M---- wept, and I wept to
+keep them company.  At last nature called at truce, and by degrees our
+sobs and tears ceased and we became calmer.
+
+I have travelled all over Europe, but France is the only country in which
+I saw a decent and respectable clergy.
+
+
+
+
+
+FLORENCE TO TRIESTE
+[JC#29][jcflt10.xxx]2979
+
+I cannot help laughing when people ask me for advice, as I feel so
+certain that my advice will not be taken.  Man is an animal that has to
+learn his lesson by hard experience in battling with the storms of life.
+Thus the world is always in disorder and always ignorant, for those who
+know are always in an infinitesimal proportion to the whole.
+
+He denied, for instance, that almsgiving could annul the penalty attached
+to sin, and according to him the only sort of almsgiving which had any
+merit was that prescribed in the Gospel: "Let not thy right hand know
+what thy left hand doeth." He even maintained that he who gave alms
+sinned unless it was done with the greatest secrecy, for alms given in
+public are sure to be accompanied by vanity.
+
+She asked where he was, and I said at Venice; but of course she did not
+believe me.  There are circumstances when a clever man deceives by
+telling the truth, and such a lie as this must be approved by the most
+rigorous moralists.
+
+I also met at Gorice a Count Coronini, who was known in learned circles
+as the author of some Latin treatises on diplomacy.  Nobody read his
+books, but everybody agreed that he was a very learned man.
+
+Fifty years ago a wise man said to me: "Every family is troubled by some
+small tragedy, which should be kept private with the greatest care.  In
+fine, people should learn to wash their dirty linen in private."
+
+
+
+
+
+OLD AGE AND DEATH
+[JC#30][jcagdxxx.xxx]2980
+
+Age, that cruel and unavoidable disease, compels me to be in good
+health, in spite of myself.
+
+Now that I am getting into my dotage, I look on the dark side of
+everything.  I am invited to a wedding and see naught but gloom.
+
+When I recall these events, I grow young again and feel once more the
+delights of youth, despite the long years which separate me from that
+happy time.
+
+I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty
+better; and whenever I have been in danger of losing it, fate has come to
+my rescue.
+
+The longer I live, the more interest I take in my papers.  They are the
+treasure which attaches me to life and makes death more hateful still.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLETE MEMOIRES OF JACQUES CASANOVA
+[JC#31][csnva10.xxx]2981
+
+"We have enjoyed ourselves," said Marcoline, "and time that is given to
+enjoyment is never lost."
+
+Is selfishness, then, the universal motor of our actions?  I am afraid it
+is.
+
+Time that destroys marble and brass destroys also the very memory of what
+has been.
+
+I was foolish enough to write the truth.  Never give way to this
+temptation, if it assails you.
+
+
+A man never argues well except when his purse is well filled
+Accepted the compliment for what it was worth
+Accomplice of the slanderer
+Advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful
+Age, that cruel and unavoidable disease
+All women, dear Leah are for sale
+All-powerful lever, gold
+Alms given in public are sure to be accompanied by vanity
+Anger and reason do not belong to the same family
+Angry man always thinks himself right
+At my age I could not be allowed to have any opinions
+Augurs could never look at each other without laughing
+Awkward or miserly, and therefore unworthy of love
+Axiom that "neglected right is lost right"
+Beauty is the only unpardonable offence in your eyes
+Beauty without wit offers love nothing
+Bed is a capital place to get an appetite
+Best plan in this world is to be astonished at nothing
+Beware of the man of one book
+Calumnies are easy to utter but hard to refute
+Cherishing my grief
+Clever man deceives by telling the truth
+Commissaries of Chastity
+Confession
+Contempt of life
+Could tell a good story without laughing
+Criticism only grazed the skin and never wounded deeply
+Delights are in proportion to the privations we have suffered
+Desire is only kept alive by being denied
+Desire to make a great fuss like a great man
+Despair which is not without some sweetness
+Despised ignoramus becomes an enemy
+Diminish the tale of your years instead of increasing it
+Distance is relative
+Divinities--novelty and singularity
+Do not mind people believing anything, provided it is not true
+Do their duty, and to live in peace and sweet ignorance
+Economy in pleasure is not to my taste
+Emotion is infectious
+Essence of freedom consists in thinking you have it
+Everything hung from an if
+Exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear
+Fanaticism, no matter of what nature, is only the plague
+Fatal desire for luxury and empty show spoils all
+Favourite passion has always been vengeance
+First motive is always self-interest
+Foolish enough to write the truth
+For in the night, you know, all cats are grey
+For is love anything else than a kind of curiosity?
+Fortune flouts old age
+Found him greater at a distance than close at hand
+Gave the Cardinal de Rohan the famous necklace
+Girl who gave nothing must take nothing
+Give yourself up to whatever fate offers to you,
+Government ought never to destroy ancient customs abruptly
+Groans, and prayers, and blasphemies
+Happiness is purely a creature of the imagination
+Happiness is not lasting--nor is man
+Happy or unhappy from a merely cursory inspection
+Happy ignorance!
+Happy age when one's inexperience is one's sole misfortune
+Hasty verses are apt to sacrifice wit to rhyme
+He won't be uneasy--he is a philosopher
+Hobbes: of two evils choose the least
+Honest old man will not believe in the existence of rascals
+Idle questions which are commonly addressed to a traveller
+If this and if that, and every other if
+If I could live my life over again
+If history did not lie
+Ignorance is bliss
+Ignorant, who talk about everything right or wrong
+Imagine that what they feel themselves others must feel
+It is only fools who complain
+It's too much for honour and too little for love
+Jealousy leads to anger, and anger goes a long way
+Knowing that he would not be regretted after his death
+Last thing which we learn in all languages is wit
+Laugh out of season
+Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth
+Lie a sufficient number of times, one ends by believing it
+Light come, light go
+Love always makes men selfish
+Look on everything we don't possess as a superfluity
+Love fills our minds with idle visions
+Love makes no conditions
+Made a point of forgetting everything unpleasant
+Made a parade of his Atheism
+Man needs so little to console him or to soothe his grief
+Marriage without enjoyment is a thorn without roses
+Marriage state, for which I felt I had no vocation
+Married a rich wife, he repented of having married at all
+Mere beauty does not go for much
+Most trifling services are assessed at the highest rates
+My spirit and my desires are as young as ever
+My time was too short to write so little
+Mystical insinuations
+Negligent attire
+Never to pass an opinion on any subject
+Never wearied himself with too much thinking
+Nobody read his books, but everybody agreed he was learned
+'Non' is equal to giving the lie
+Now I am too old to begin curing myself
+Obscenity disgusts, and never gives pleasure
+Oh! wonderful power of self-delusion
+One never knows enough
+Owed all its merits to antithesis and paradox
+Pardonable weakness, most of us prefer "mine" to "thine"
+Passing infidelity, but not inconstancy
+Passion and prejudice cannot reason
+People did not want to know things as they truly were
+People want to know everything, and they invent
+Pigmies mimicking a giant
+Pity to sell cheaply what would have to be replaced dearly
+Pleasures are realities, though all too fleeting
+Pope, whom no Roman can believe to be infallible
+Post-masters
+Prejudices which had the sanction of the law
+Pride is the daughter of folly
+Privately indulged in every luxury that he forbade to others
+Privilege of a nursing mother
+Promising everlasting constancy
+Proud nation, at once so great and so little
+Quacks
+Rather be your debtor than for you to be mine
+Read when I am gone
+Reading innumerable follies one finds written in such places
+Repentance for a good deed
+Reproached by his wife for the money he had expended
+Rid of our vices more easily than of our follies
+Rome the holy, which thus strives to make all men pederasts
+Rumour is only good to amuse fools
+Sad symptom of misery which is called a yawn
+Sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection
+Scold and then forgive
+Scrupulously careful not to cheat you in small things
+Seldom praised and never blamed
+Selfishness, then, the universal motor of our actions?
+Shewed his contempt by saying nothing
+Sin concealed is half pardoned
+Sleep--the very likeness of non-existence
+Snatching from poor mortal man the delusions
+Soften the hardships of the slow but certain passage to the grave
+Stupid servant is more dangerous than a bad one
+'Sublata lucerna nullum discrimen inter feminas'
+Submissive gaze of a captive who glories in his chain
+Surface is always the first to interest
+Talent of never appearing to be a learned man
+Taste and feeling
+Tell me whether that contempt of life renders you worthy of it
+There is no cure for death
+There's time enough for that
+Time that is given to enjoyment is never lost
+Time that destroys marble and brass destroys also the very memory
+Time is a great teacher
+Timidity is often another word for stupidity
+To know ill is worse than not to know at all
+Vengeance is a divine pleasure
+Verses which, like parasites, steal into a funeral oration
+Victims of their good faith
+Wash their dirty linen in private
+What is love?
+When we can feel pity, we love no longer
+When one is in an ill humour, everything is fuel for the fire
+Whims of the mob and the fancies of the Republic
+Wife worthy of being a mistress
+Wiser if they were less witty
+Wish is father to the thought
+Wit cannot stand before stupidity
+Woman has in her tears a weapon
+Women are always as old as they look
+Women would be either tyrants or slaves
+Women often do the most idiotic things out of sheer obstinacy
+World of memories, without a present and without a future
+Would like to shape the laws according to their needs
+Wretch treats me so kindly that I love him more and more
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+from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, by David Widger
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