"The first reaction to truth is hatred."

"Out of the frying pan, into the fire."

"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."

"The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain."

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"

"The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed."

"Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache."

"Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not."

"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."

"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

"You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing."

"See how these Christians love one another."

"The nature of rumor is known to all."

"Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy."

"He who flees will fight again."

"Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy."

"You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine."

"The entire fruit is already present in the seed."

"Fear is the foundation of safety."

"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."

"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage."

"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."