Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

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.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.