Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.