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Top 25 Cardinal Richelieu Quotes (2025 Update)

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Never write a letter and never destroy one.”

1. “Never write a letter and never destroy one.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?”

2. “If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Deception is the knowledge of kings.”

6. “Deception is the knowledge of kings.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.”

7. “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 Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

8. “Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...”

11. “A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.”

16. “I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.”

17. “First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.”

18. “Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.”

19. “Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.”

20. “I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Who will be my equal?”

24. “Who will be my equal?”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.”

25. “To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o’clock in winter and noon in summer.”

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

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Wise judges are we of each other!”

28. “Wise judges are we of each other!”

— Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu Quote: “Did you think I was immortal?”

29. “Did you think I was immortal?”

— Cardinal Richelieu

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