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
Topics: Honesty
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
—Cardinal Richelieu
Topics: Deception, Deception/Lying
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
—Cardinal Richelieu
Topics: Secrets
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
—Cardinal Richelieu
Topics: Wine, One liners
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
Topics: Judgment, Judging, Judges
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
—Cardinal Richelieu
Topics: Commitment
A truly virtuous person is like good metal,—the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved. Wrongs may well try him and touch him, but they cannot imprint on him any false stamp.
—Cardinal Richelieu
Topics: Trials
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- Charles de Gaulle French General, Statesman
- Harry Chandler American Businessman
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- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon English Statesman, Historian
- Eliza Farnham American Reformer
- Edwin H. Land American Inventor
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