Last Quotes from Justinian I

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity. The first serves divine things, while the latter directs and administers human affairs; both, however, proceed from the same origin and adorn the life of mankind.

We have such confidence in the protection of the Almighty God that we do not depend on our arms, or upon our soldiers or upon those who conduct our wars, or upon our own genius, but we solely place our reliance upon the Providence of the Holy Trinity.