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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
Approximate author period: c. 1761 AD · early modern
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- Giacomo Casanova
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- Approximate author period: c. 1761 AD · early modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Giacomo Casanova: life dates 1725 to 1798. Wikidata Q83321, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83321 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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