When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

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.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.