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.
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
A liar is full of oaths.