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.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
He who despises life is his life's master.