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 XIVWhy do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
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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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Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?
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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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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
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The Last Argument of Kings.
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One king, one law, one faith.
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I am the State.
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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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First feelings are always the most natural.
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Impatience for victory guarantees defeat.
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Only small minds want always to be right.
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Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
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