39 Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Wise judges are we of each other!

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a 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 cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

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?

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...