Louis XIV Quotes

#1. Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

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#2. I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

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#3. The final argument of kings

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#4. There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

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

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#6. I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

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#7. Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

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#8. 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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#9. Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

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#10. Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

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#11. Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
[Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]

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#12. Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

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#13. It is legal because I wish it.

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#14. Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

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#15. The Pyrenees are no more.

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#16. 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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#17. Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

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#18. Only small minds want always to be right.

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#19. First feelings are always the most natural.

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#20. Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

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#21. Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

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