Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

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.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

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

Each instant of life is a step toward death.