Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
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.