“What are men? Children who doubt.”

“If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.”

“Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.”

“What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?”

“There may be better men than me in Kanbal, but I doubt there are any who will sew up your wounds for free.”

“It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.”