Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIVIn 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.
More Louis XIV Quotes
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Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
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Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
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First feelings are always the most natural.
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Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
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Only small minds want always to be right.
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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.
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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
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The Last Argument of Kings.
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I am the State.
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Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
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It is legal because I wish it.
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Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
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Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?
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