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.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.