Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
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 don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.