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.

Patience and time conquer all things.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

Happiness is meant to be shared.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years