“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

“If one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another”

“He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.”

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”

“I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. How could this beautiful cause produce in you an effect so abominable.”

“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”