The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.