I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself. – Giacomo Casanova
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 its charms. – Giacomo Casanova
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. – Giacomo Casanova
In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning. – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18