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- Cardinal De Richelieu: French clergyman and nobleman
- Cardinal de Retz: French churchman and writer of memoirs
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Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
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Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
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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.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
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Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
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My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
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Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
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Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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