Success Quote by Giacomo Casanova

Casanova turns autobiography into a dare: stop sorting life into tidy moral bins. Coming from a man branded a libertine celebrity and professional escape artist, the line isn’t a pious consolation so much as a statement of method. He’s telling you he’s watched reputations rise from scandals, opportunities bloom out of punishments, and virtues curdle into traps. In his world, consequences don’t obey the etiquette of sermons.

The phrasing is doing quiet work. “My success and my misfortunes” places triumph and disaster on the same evidentiary plane, as if both are equally reliable teachers. Then he widens the scope with “either physical or moral,” collapsing the modern desire to keep bodies, desires, and ethics in separate rooms. Casanova’s 18th-century Europe ran on patronage, spectacle, and surveillance; the same society that condemned him also consumed him. That’s why the sentence lands: it’s written by someone who understands that “evil” is often just what power calls your freedom, and “good” can be the mask power wears to discipline you.

There’s also a sly self-exoneration baked in. If good can “come out of evil,” then scandal can be recoded as apprenticeship; the rake becomes a philosopher of experience. Yet he doesn’t let himself off entirely. “Evil comes out of good” admits the uncomfortable flip side: good intentions breed hypocrisy, moral campaigns create cruelty, respectability produces its own black market.

It’s not optimism. It’s Casanova’s worldly cynicism with a human face: life is an exchange system, and morality is rarely the final ledger.