–How you men stand up for each other! –How you women war against each other!

The duchess of Pandua
I am as hungry as a widow for a husband, as tired as a young maid is of good advice, as dry as a monk'a sermon.

A smiling mask of friendship to all men, until you have them safely in your grip, then you can crush them.

Conscience is but the name which cowardice fleeing from battle scrawls upon its shield.

A sermon is but a sorry sauce, when you have nothing to eat with it.

Women's love turns men to angels, the love of men turns women into martyrs.

When men love women, they give them but a little of their lives, but women when they love give everything.

Vera or the nihilists
They have spoken to us by the sword, and by the sword we shall answer.

They starve while we surfeit, they toil while we idle, they sicken while we poison.

They asked you for bread, you gave them a stone. They sought for freedom, you scouraged them with scorpions.

They tiger cannot change its nature, nor.the snake lose its venom.

It was God's finger led him there.