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
I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.
Who will be my equal?
Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him
I am massively constrained by my position at No 10.
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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.
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.