I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
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.
He who pardons easily invites offense.
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.