One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
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.
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.