It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
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.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
Peace is produced by war.