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Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy plɛsi]; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (French: Cardinal de Richelieu [kaʁdinal d(ə) ʁiʃ(ə)ljø]), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered.

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Did you think I was immortal?

Famous Last Words, Immortal, Think, Thinking

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Deception, Disguise, Feelings, Kings, Know, Knowledge

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Artifice, Employ, Enemy, May, Rival, Rivals

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.

Approved, Fined, May, Opposed, Trying, Virtue

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

Crime, Law, Laws, Punishment, Rank, Upholds

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

Fountain, Friendship, Goodness, Medicine

Wise judges are we of each other!

Wise, Judging, Judgment, Judges

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

Brilliant, Bums, Everybody, Excellent, I Love Myself, Love

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

Depended, Enterprise, Future Success, Ifs, Success

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Ability, Letting, Making, Quality, Rulers, Serve

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

Bakers, Bread, Cooks, Rolls, Summer, Winter

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Affairs, Aquariums, Essential, Essentials, Firsts, Secrecy

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Allowing, Done, Emotion, Reason, Rule, Swayed

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

God, Men, Peace, Pleased, War

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

Empire, Empires, Lost, Single, Sometimes, Won

One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

Believe, King, Kings, Openly, Rome, Shape

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

Trouble, Luther, States, Troubles, Confined

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

Giving, Alive, Lines, Condemn, Honorable

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

Conciliate, Crush, Failing, Firsts, Mean

When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.

Bounds, Burdens, May, Mules, People, Restrain

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