"I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better."

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Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

Giacomo Casanova

#Liberty Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.”
“I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.”
“I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!”
“They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.”

Source : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
“Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.”
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
“Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.”
“Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.”

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