39 Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him