Quotes by
Cardinal Richelieu |
1585-1642 , French cardinal & Prime minister
French clergyman and statesman. He became a cardinal in 1622, and Chief minister to Louis XIII of France in 1624. He retained this office until his death in 1642. A patron of the arts, he founded the French Academy. Richelieu's legacy as a master strategist made him one of the most influential figures of 17th-century France.
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Quotations
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | Betrayal is a matter of when. 2 |
| • | Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. 1 |
| • | To know how to mislead is the knowledge of the kings. 1 |
| • | If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? 1 |
| • | A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire. |
| • | Never write a letter and never destroy one. |
| • | Death is only a moment and life thousands. |
| • | Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. |
