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Quote by Giacomo Casanova
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. – Giacomo Casanova

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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. – Giacomo Casanova

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Intelligence
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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

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Men
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Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. – Giacomo Casanova

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Death
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People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1967

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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. – Jessica Lange

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Death

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Death

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Khalil Gibran

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You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. – Marcus Valerius Martialis, translated from Latin

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Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent. – Henry David Thoreau

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