Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.