In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
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.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
My sweetest hope is to lose hope