Giacomo Casanova
(2 Apr 1725 - 4 Jun 1798)
Italian writer and adventurer is known for his life of scandalous conduct, personal charm, notorious lover, gambling and intrigue.
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Science Quotes by Giacomo Casanova (1 quote)
Signor Malipiero … said with good sense, “medicine in the hands of the foolhardy is poison, as poison becomes medicine in the hands of the wise.”
— Giacomo Casanova
In History of My Life (1997), Vol. 1, 159, as translated from French by Willard R. Trask. Alternate forms include, for example, “In wise hands, poison is medicine; in foolish hands, medicine is poison.” The latter is used as an epigraph in Thomas Szasz, Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (1996), 145.
See also:
- The Story of My Life, by Giacomo Casanova. - book suggestion.