Famous quotes containing the words duc de, duc and/or richelieu:
“Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.”
—Duc De Richelieu (1585–1642)