Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.