Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Giacomo Casanova
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  1. The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

  2. Lies, truth, love I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

  3. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

  4. Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

  5. If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

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