I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

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.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie