“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.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

We’re really just the frosting on a cake and we don’t know what’s inside the cake.

She is the storm and the rainbow that comes after.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree