Cardinal Richelieu

“We must sleep like a lion, and not like a frightened hare.”

“Great undertakings are not completed by idle words, but by wise determination.”

“It is necessary to listen to everything and to talk to everyone, because some of those whom we least suspect will give us advice and information.”

“Patience is the virtue of an ass, that trots beneath his burden and is quiet.”

“Humility is the first of all Christian virtues, for it is the mother of all the others.”

“One must have a tough mind, and a soft heart.”

“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.”