They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
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.
Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.