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"Pour tromper un rival lartifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis."

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied to cardinals and their customary red robes.
"Pour tromper un rival lartifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis."
"Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois."
"Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state."
"Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it."