Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
History: gossip well told.
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.