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Cardinal Richelieu
French
Clergyman
About the author
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Cardinal Richelieu,
French
Clergyman
#State
#First
#Secrecy
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,
French
Clergyman
#Will
#Men
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Cardinal Richelieu,
French
Clergyman
#Love
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu,
French
Clergyman
#Will
#Men
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Cardinal Richelieu,
French
Clergyman
#Success
#Future
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu,
French
Clergyman
#God
#War
#Men