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There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

Quote by Giovanni Papini about love

The man when came into life, the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about people, life, man

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Quote by Giovanni Papini about god, home, wisdom

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about philosophy, earth, reason, rightness, being, things, contentment

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about people, man

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.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about opinion, existence, knowledge

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about marriage, love

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about love, curiosity

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about love, immortality, pleasure, real estate

It is a madness to defy witout reason one's intelligence.

Quote by Giovanni Boccaccio about defiance, intelligence, reason

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Quote by Giovanni Boccaccio about people, bad luck, faith, bad, good, good luck

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Quote by Giovanni Boccaccio about haven, joy, earth

If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about people, contentment, face