Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.
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Response to his judges upon his conviction as a heretic, prior to his transfer to the civil authorities for execution (16 February 1600); as quoted by Gaspar Schopp of Breslau in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought (1950) | It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. | You pronounce sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.