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

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. — Cardinal Richelieu

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

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. — Cardinal Richelieu

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

Wise judges are we of each other! — Cardinal Richelieu

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu

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

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. — Cardinal Richelieu

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. — Cardinal Richelieu

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

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush. — Cardinal Richelieu

Did you think I was immortal? — Cardinal Richelieu

Never write a letter and never destroy one. — Cardinal Richelieu

Who will be my equal? — Cardinal Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. — Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire ... — Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings. — Cardinal Richelieu

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu

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

Deception is the knowledge of kings. — Armand Jean Du Plessis Richelieu

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

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums. — Cardinal Richelieu

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

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

That alone made me want to find every Richelieu in the world and kiss them. With tongue. — Alyxandra Harvey

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state. — Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking. — Cardinal Richelieu

If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to hang them. — Armand Jean Du Plessis Richelieu

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