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The Cardinal Richelieu quote's chilling. That's got to be one of the most evil sentences uttered by humans.

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > That's got to be one of the most evil sentences uttered by humans. Its a fairly matter-of-fact description of the state of law at the time. (Note that that statement itself -- though Richelieu himself was in a privileged enough position to have no concern -- could easily have been an example of the effect it described, as it suggested both that the King's law was evil in condemning the honest, and that the King's law was capriciously enforced, either of which could be lèse-majesté.)