- Voltaire: The Governor of Buenos Aires, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza, a man of such pride and natural dignity that all who met him felt the urge to beat him to a pulp.
- Old Lady: Twenty times I have wanted to kill myself, but still, I love life. Ridiculous? Why should we want to go on carrying a load we long to let fall, loathing our very existence, and yet clinging to it?