Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

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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.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Death, Men, Hands

  "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel K̀eeler Hoyt, p. 763, 1896.

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• Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Done, Emotion, Reason

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• Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Law, Punishment, Crime

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• First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Crush, Mean, Firsts

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• A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Empires, Sometimes, Lost

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• Deception is the knowledge of kings.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Deception

  "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

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• If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Wine, Made

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• Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Law, Crime, Individual

  "Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America". Book by David Hackett Fischer, 2008.

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• Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Friendship, Medicine, Goodness

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• Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Book, Reading, Kingdoms

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• Never write a letter and never destroy one.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Writing, Letters

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• To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Mean, Deception, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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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.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Giving, Alive, Lines

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• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Future Success, Enterprise, Ifs

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• Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Trouble, Luther, States

  "The Catholic Encyclopedia". Book edited by Charles George Herbermann, 1913.

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• When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  People, Mules, May

  1688 Testament Politique.

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• To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.
  [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Roi, Royalty

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• I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Enemy, States

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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.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Trying, May, Virtue

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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.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Quality, Ability, Rulers

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• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Aquariums, Essentials, Firsts

  "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

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• Who will be my equal?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Equal

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• I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Sleep, Shade, Waking

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• I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Leaving, Degrees, Kingdoms

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• One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Believe, Rome

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