Great Throughts Treasury

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Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu

French Cardinal, Statesman and Noble

"A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp."