Every man of courage is a man of his word.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
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.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.