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Quote by Giacomo Casanova
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his na

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. – Giacomo Casanova

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I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. – Giacomo Casanova

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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. – Giacomo Casanova

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respect
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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

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. – Werner Heisenberg

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome mans insecurity before himself and before nature. – Albert Einstein

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