Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
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 greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.