One obtained the influence over a woman's heart which the other possesses over the mind of an old man.

Both governed unscrupulously, and both have merited and obtained the hatred of their contemporaries.

They have talked French comically, without being insensible to any of the delicate niceties of the language.
Still there would be manifest injustice in placing them in the same rank.

The selfish Mazarin dictated to Europe the treaties of Westphalia, and the Peace of the Pyrenees: he founded by diplomacy the greatness of Louis XIV., and managed the affairs of the French monarchy, without in any way neglecting his own.
Antonelli has made his fortune at the expense of the nation, the Pope, and the Church.

Mazarin may be compared to a skilful but rascally tailor, who dresses his customers well, while he contrives to cabbage sundry yards of their cloth; Antonelli, to those Jews of the Middle Ages, who demolished the Coliseum for the sake of the old iron in the walls..