“Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?”

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

First feelings are always the most natural.

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

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.

Only small minds want always to be right.

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.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

But I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like… I’m not married.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.

Destiny doesn’t exist. It’s God we need, and fast.

Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.