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Cardinal Richelieu Inspirational Quotes (21)

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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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A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.
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I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
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Did you think I was immortal?
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We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
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I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.
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To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]
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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.
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Wise judges are we of each other!
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First, all means to conciliate failing that, all means to crush.
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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.
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I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on 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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If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
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Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.
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Never write a letter and never destroy one.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Who will be my equal?
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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.
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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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