Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

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

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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

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

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Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or n...

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Cardinal Richelieu

Born: 1585-09-09

Died: 1642-12-04

Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642) was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. Consecrated as a bishop in 1607, he was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. He continued to rise in both the Catholic Church and French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and Chief minister to Louis XIII of France in 1624. He retained this office until his death in 1642, when he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered.More