Cardinal De Richelieu

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

— Cardinal De Richelieu

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

— Cardinal De Richelieu

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 De Richelieu

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

— Cardinal De Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

— Cardinal De Richelieu