What destroys one man preserves another.
Patience and time conquer all things.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
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.