Quote #2
Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
More from Cardinal Richelieu
- Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
- Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
- Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depends on it.
- Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
- Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest…
- I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.
- I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
- Never write a letter and never destroy one