If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.


Cardinal De Richelieu

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If you search for God you will find him and He will not give up on you".
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CATHERINE THE GREAT
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KING SOLOMON
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
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A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
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It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
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A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
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My impression is that they've entered into real talks.
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But there will be time.
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I can confidently say these are not major problems. They can be overcome.
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A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
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Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
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CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD
This is a very damaging confusion.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD
Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
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There are no office hours for leaders
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GEORGE CARDINAL PELL
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
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GEORGE CARDINAL PELL
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JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
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JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
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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)
Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD
The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU
There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD
We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE
Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES
There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE
To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA
Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON
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DE KNUDSON
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DE KNUDSON
Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN
It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN
We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN
All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD
One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES
How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN
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DE LANGE
Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY
The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE)
Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY)
A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES
The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé
We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL
I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL
I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO
I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO
I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO
I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO
Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN
I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN