Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu idézet

Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu , francia államférfi.

Névhasználat: A „Richelieu bíboros” elnevezés nem egyértelmű, mert Alphonse nevű bátyja szintén bíborosi rangot töltött be, ám du Plessisnek sem nevezhetjük testvérei miatt. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. szeptember 1585 – 4. december 1642   •   Más nevek Armand Jean du Plesis Richelieu, Kardinál Richelieu
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Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu: Idézetek angolul

“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.”

Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
As quoted in The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896) by Jehiel K̀eeler Hoyt, p. 763
Édouard Fournier, in L'Espirit dans l'Historie (1867), 3rd edition, Ch. 51, p. 260, disputes the traditional attribution, and suggests various agents of Richelieu might have been the actual author.
David Hackett Fischer, in Champlain's Dream (2009), Simon & Schuster, p. 704, n. 14, says it's a paraphrase of Quintilian and there is no source closer to Richelieu than Francoise Bertaut's Memoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Anne d'Autriche.
Disputed

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

As quoted in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), edited by Charles George Herbermann

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

Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
Variant translation: To mislead a rival, deception is permissible; one may use all means against his enemies.

“Deception is the knowledge of kings.”

Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
“Maxims,” Testament Politique (1641)

“The last reasoning of Kings.”
Ultima ratio Regum

A comment upon artillery fire, as quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations (1908) edited by Hugh Percy Jones, p. 119; these words were later inscribed upon cannon of Louis XVI of France.