"You are both of the same temper," it said; "that is, you both desire one and the same thing, which is, to be, each of you, sole governor.

That which you believe to be your making will be your undoing." From that moment the cardinal, in spite of his modest resistance based upon the state of his health, became the veritable chief of the council.
"Everybody knew that, amidst the mere private occupations he had hitherto had, it would have been impossible for him to exist with such poor health, unless he took frequent recreation in the country." [_Memoires de Richelieu,_ t.ii.

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289.] Turning his attention to founding his power and making himself friends, he authorized the recall of Count Schomberg, lately disgraced, and of the Duke of Anjou's, the king's brother's, governor, Colonel Ornano, imprisoned by the Marquis of La Vieuville.

He, at the same time, stood out against the danger of concentrating all the power of the government in a single pair of hands.
"Your Majesty," he said, "ought not to confide your public business to a single one of your councillors and hide it from the rest; those whom you have chosen ought to live in fellowship and amity in your service, not in partisanship and division.