The gods are on the side of the stronger.

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

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.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.