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