You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and… — Giacomo Casanova

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

In the original French

Vous rirez quand vous saurez que souvent je ne me suis pas fait un scruple de tromer des etourdis, des fripons, des sots quand j'en ai eu besoin. Pour ce qui regarde les femmes, ce sont des tromperies reciproques qu'on ne met pas en ligne de compte, car quand l'amour s'en mele, on est ordinairement la dupe de part et d'autre.

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791
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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
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Casanova, Giacomo. Aus den Memoiren des Venetianers Jacob Casanova de Seingalt [From the Memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt]. Vol. 1, Leipzig: Brodhaus, 1822, preface.

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