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.
LOUIS XIVOnly small minds want always to be right.
More Louis XIV Quotes
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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 see no point in reading.
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I am the State.
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Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
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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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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
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Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
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Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?
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It is legal because I wish it.
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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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The Last Argument of Kings.
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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
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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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