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.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

How sweet to die after one's enemies.

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

A liar is full of oaths.

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