Famous quotes containing the words louis, france, ministry, cardinal and/or richelieu:
“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
—Anatole France (1844–1924)
“the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law; where no Law, no Injustice. Force, and Fraud, are in war the two Cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”
—Duc De Richelieu (1585–1642)