Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

Giacomo Casanova

“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women, as a general rule, dupe each other”. –Giacomo Casanova