Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac, commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieuʁiʃljø]), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth9 September 1585
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Never write a letter and never destroy one.
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
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.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
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.
I am massively constrained by my position at No 10.
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.