I would not like a king who could obey.
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
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.
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.