If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred upon each other. "Old Scratch" always makes noise and a lot of racket so as to prevent us from resting in God. The devil will not be able to reach us in the stronghold of silence. Let us guard against multiplying sins by satisfying our little egotistical or revolutionary passions.

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.

Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister.

She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.

Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.