Cardinal De Richelieu
French clergyman and nobleman
Lived from: 1585 - 1642
Category: Theologians and clergy Country: 
France
Born: 9 september 1585 Died: 4 december 1642
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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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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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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 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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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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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
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To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
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