Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
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.
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Ambition aspires to descend