For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
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.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past