They are all alike--_non tantum ovum ovo simile_--one egg is not more like another than they are.

_Non tali auxilio_--we want no such help.

We ask for bread, not for stones; we want men, not empty-headed dandies.

We have both at present; but if the Emperor fails us, we shall have too many dandies and too few men--too few men like you, Don Giovanni.

Instead of armed battalions we shall have polite societies for mutual assurance against political risks,--instead of the support of the greatest military power in Europe, we shall have to rely on a parcel of young gentlemen whose opinions are guided by Donna Tullia Mayer." Giovanni laughed and glanced at his Eminence, who chose to refer all the imminent disasters of the State to the lady whom he did not wish to see married to his companion.
"Is her influence really so great ?" asked Saracinesca, incredulously.
"She is agreeable, she is pretty, she is rich--her influence is a type of the whole influence which is abroad in Rome--a reflection of the life of Paris.