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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state
CARDINAL RICHELIEU I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and i like bums.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to con...
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU By my hand and for the good of the state; the bearer has done what has been done. Hmmmm ~~~ one shou...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU FOUR MUSKETEERS

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
CARDINAL MERMILLOD

Growth is the only evidence of life.
CARDINAL NEWMAN By appointing their own bishops hastily and illegally, they [the Patriotic Catholic Association] tri...
CARDINAL ZEN And especially the newer bishops. Everybody knows they were appointed by the Holy Father.
CARDINAL ZEN The final word should not be exclusively on the side of an atheist government.
CARDINAL ZEN My impression is that they've entered into real talks.
CARDINAL ZEN Only the Holy Father can decide which men are suitable. But if the government is worried about an ap...
CARDINAL ZEN But there will be time.
CARDINAL ZEN Winter has passed, and spring has come. The seeds you have sown with tears will bear fruit very soon...
CARDINAL ZEN Yet it is not my blood that has been shed -- it is the bleeding tears from the numerous, nameless, h...
CARDINAL ZEN I agree mainland China's situation is different. The Vatican may make concessions and let China give...
CARDINAL ZEN I can confidently say these are not major problems. They can be overcome.
CARDINAL ZEN Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL RETZ A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL RETZ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL RETZ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL RETZ Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely hu...
CARDINAL RATZINGER the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.
CARDINAL RATZINGER We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain a...
CARDINAL RATZINGER [t]hose...who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.
CARDINAL RATZINGER a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distanc...
CARDINAL RATZINGER In this sense, we can't calmly sit down and say, 'Well, there's no promise of large numbers; success...
CARDINAL RATZINGER

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
CARDINAL NEWMAN

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it...
CARDINAL NEWMAN

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find faul...
CARDINAL NEWMAN

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
CARDINAL NEWMAN

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
CARDINAL NEWMAN

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous wi...
CARDINAL NEWMAN

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re...
CARDINAL NEWMAN

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
CARDINAL NEWMAN

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fau...
CARDINAL NEWMAN We have the great joy today of introducing and blessing a new rose which has been developed.
CARDINAL MAHONY The war on terror isn't going to be won through immigration restrictions.
CARDINAL MAHONY Is it not possible that their prayer --- their intercession with God --- might in fact help bring ab...
CARDINAL MAHONY It is unacceptable that immigrant workers labor in unsafe conditions for wages insufficient to suppo...
CARDINAL MAHONY We celebrate together tonight that unity and that harmony as we bless these oils for the sacramental...
CARDINAL MAHONY Unless you are a Native American, everyone in here is the son or daughter of immigrants.
CARDINAL MAHONY It looks so fitting today [next] to the candle used last year during the illness of the Holy Father ...
CARDINAL MAHONY It's a very difficult and delicate theme that requires prudence.
CARDINAL LOZANO We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically prope...
CARDINAL LOZANO For example, there are many universities and many countries where you cannot become an obstetrician ...
CARDINAL LOZANO We must provide guidance on the various problems that face the world of health care today, from spec...
CARDINAL LOZANO Because they are having full power in many places, and especially at the national level, they are ab...
CARDINAL ZEN I think it's quite obvious that our situation is urgent, is dire. The bleeding that's been going on ...
CARDINAL O'MALLEY If South Korea is able to host World Youth Day, we would naturally invite the pope to come, and it w...
CARDINAL CHEONG No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinis...
CARDINAL CARAFFA But it kept getting really, really sore every single day.
BRIAN CARDINAL I was trying to get it better, trying to get it stronger. You ask anybody in the league that knows m...
BRIAN CARDINAL One (official) had one call, the other had another call. Who knows?
BRIAN CARDINAL Even with advance knowledge and awareness, and active participation in the process, there is no deny...
CARDINAL MAIDA We're not putting that before the Lord. We'll pray that everybody stays healthy, that we have a good...
CARDINAL MAIDA Doing what we please is not freedom is not liberty; rather it is the abuse of true liberty and freed...
CARDINAL HAYES As Easter approaches and in the context of the testament of John Paul II, I remind you of his words,...
CARDINAL DZIWISZ It's as if the world stopped for that moment.
CARDINAL DZIWISZ I am not opposed to the specific clauses of the revision. I am rather concerned about today's educat...
CARDINAL CHEONG It has become more difficult to help the North, but we will continue to provide support.
CARDINAL CHEONG We made some key mistakes. Obviously we didn't play that counter play very well that went for a touc...
ERIC CARDINAL Obviously, if it becomes 17-6, it's a whole different ball game; there's no doubt about it.
ERIC CARDINAL There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper wh...
ROGER CARDINAL This train was on the track before the Board of Supervisors even voted on it in June.
LAURA CARDINAL They (the Board of Supervisors) ignored or glossed over that distinction.
LAURA CARDINAL A very, very small part of the area to be incorporated could be called a community. It's rural.
LAURA CARDINAL Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
BARON LYTTON RICHELIEU Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely an...
CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re...
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find faul...
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN

There are no office hours for leaders.
CARDINAL J. GIBBONS

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
CARDINAL DE RETS

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
CARDINAL DE RETZ This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking....
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the o...
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
CARDINAL DE RETZ

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it...
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN If he admitted this, it confirms the atmosphere of hatred that has stricken a priest who gave Christ...
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL DE RETZ

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
CARDINAL DE RETZ

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
CARDINAL DE RETZ

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL DE RETZ This is a very damaging confusion.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD There are no office hours for leaders
CARDINAL JAMES GIBBONS I believe we do a disservice to God and probably to the pro-life cause if God is never mentioned in ...
GEORGE CARDINAL PELL You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the trut...
GEORGE CARDINAL PELL A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a ...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We ca...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you mus...
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Isr...
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
LEON JOSEPH CARDINAL SUENENS The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
CARDINAL CARLO CARAFA (OR CARAFFA) She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
CARDINAL JEAN FRANCOIS DE RETZ To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois...
ARMAND JEAN DU PLESSIS DUC DE RICHELIEU One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
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