French - Clergyman | September 9, 1585 - December 4, 1642
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Cardinal Richelieu
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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.
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
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