Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. - Giacomo Casanova. View more images...

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. - Giacomo Casanova. View more images...

In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: "The blame lies entirely with the female sex for bewitching his mind and enslaving his heart. Oh, seducing sex! Source of pain! Let a poor innocent person go in peace." - Giacomo Casanova. View more images...

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. - Giacomo Casanova. View more images...

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. - Giacomo Casanova. View more images...