39 Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

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.

Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.