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Giacomo Casanova Berühmte Zitate
Neunundneunzig Abenteuer. Aus seinen Memoiren bearb. u. eingel. von Hans-Joachim Malberg. Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag [1958]. S. 24
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Memoiren, Band 1, Vorrede S. 19
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Amor ist der größte Spitzbube unter den Göttern, der Widerspruch scheint sein Element zu sein.“
Memoiren
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Giacomo Casanova Zitate und Sprüche
„Die Liebe besteht zu drei Viertel aus Neugier.“
Memoiren
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Die Vernunft ist des Herzens größte Feindin.“
Memoiren
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Erinnerungen, Vorrede, gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=279&kapitel=1#gb_found
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Einen Dummkopf betrügen heißt, den Verstand rächen.“
Memoiren, Band 1, Vorrede
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Memoiren
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Glück sollte nicht zu leicht und nicht zu schwer zu erringen sein.“
Memoiren, Band 4, Kapitel 18"
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Im Alter ist Unabhängigkeit eine Form der Sklaverei.“
Memoiren, Band 4, Kapitel 18"
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Memoiren, Band 4, Kapitel 18"
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Memoiren, Band 1, Kapitel 11
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Auch wenn es auf den ersten Blick so scheint, ist 12 + 9 nicht immer 21.“
Memoiren, Band 3, Kapitel 5
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Der Geist spricht zum Geist und nicht zu den Ohren.“
(Casanova, Memoiren 1, S.14/W. Goldmann Verlag München in der Übersetzung v. Heinrich Conrad).
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
„Und nichts ist leichter als das.“
Schlusswort
Original frz.: "Et rien n'est plus facile que cela."
Flucht aus den Bleikammern von Venedig
Letzte Worte
Variante: (Andere Übersetzung) "Großer Gott, und ihr übrigen Zeugen meines Todes, ich habe als Philosoph gelebt und sterbe als Christ.
Quelle: Franz Gräffer, Historisch-bibliographisches bunterlei, 1824, Johann Samuel Ersch, Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Band "Caberra-Cryptostoma", 1830, Artikel "Casanova", [http://books.google.de/books?id=760qIchB0qwC&pg=PA103&q=als-Philosoph-gelebt S. 103 http://books.google.de/books?id=Dl1-in: Original Französisch) "Grand Dieu, et vous témoins de ma mort, j'ai vécu en philosophe, et je meurs en chrétien." (in: Charles Joseph de Ligne, Mémoires et mélanges historiques et littéraires, 1827-1829, Band IV, 1828, S. 42 http://books.google.de/books?id=upYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA42&q=Grand-Dieu
The Story of My Life
Memoiren, Band 1, Vorrede
Original frz.: "J’ai écrit en français, et non pas en italien parce que la langue française est plus répandue que la mienne."
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Memoiren, Band 1, Vorrede
Memoiren - Erinnerungen
Giacomo Casanova: Zitate auf Englisch
“Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.”
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Kontext: An ancient author tells us somewhere, with the tone of a pedagogue, if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read. It is a precept as beautiful as a diamond of the first water cut in England, but it cannot be applied to me, because I have not written either a novel, or the life of an illustrious character. Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. I have lived without dreaming that I should ever take a fancy to write the history of my life, and, for that very reason, my Memoirs may claim from the reader an interest and a sympathy which they would not have obtained, had I always entertained the design to write them in my old age, and, still more, to publish them.
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
Referenced
“[T]hey who do not love [life] do not deserve it.”
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 35
Referenced
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Kontext: The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. How many changes arise from such an independent mode of life!
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Kontext: In spite of a good foundation of sound morals, the natural offspring of the Divine principles which had been early rooted in my heart, I have been throughout my life the victim of my senses; I have found delight in losing the right path, I have constantly lived in the midst of error, with no consolation but the consciousness of my being mistaken. Therefore, dear reader, I trust that, far from attaching to my history the character of impudent boasting, you will find in my Memoirs only the characteristic proper to a general confession, and that my narratory style will be the manner neither of a repenting sinner, nor of a man ashamed to acknowledge his frolics. They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile. You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. 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. But on the score of fools it is a very different matter. I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man. I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. I am very far from placing them in the same class with those men whom we call stupid, for the latter are stupid only from deficient education, and I rather like them. I have met with some of them — very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. They are like eyes veiled with the cataract, which, if the disease could be removed, would be very beautiful.
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Kontext: Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Kontext: 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. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. But, by way of compensation, dire misfortune has befallen me in consequence of actions prompted by the most cautious wisdom. This would humble me; yet conscious that I had acted rightly I would easily derive comfort from that conviction.
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Kontext: 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. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. But, by way of compensation, dire misfortune has befallen me in consequence of actions prompted by the most cautious wisdom. This would humble me; yet conscious that I had acted rightly I would easily derive comfort from that conviction.
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
Referenced
Quelle: Geschichte Meines Lebens
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Variante: Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
“Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses”
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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10
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Variante: [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[. ]
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 9, p. 243
Referenced
“We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised”
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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised [...])
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Variante: We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble.
