“Only small minds want always to be right.”

First feelings are always the most natural.

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?

The Last Argument of Kings.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat.

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

One king, one law, one faith.

I see no point in reading.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

I am the State.

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind.

Mind is there, in front of you. Don’t log in.

The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.