“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.”
— Cardinal Richelieu
“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”
— Cardinal Richelieu
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
— Cardinal Richelieu
“Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never”
— Cardinal Richelieu
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.”
– Cardinal Richelieu