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.

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

What destroys one man preserves another.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Doubt, but still hate!

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.