Louis XIV

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

— Louis XIV

It is legal because I wish it.

— Louis XIV

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

— Louis XIV

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

— Louis XIV

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

— Louis XIV

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

— Louis XIV

I am dying, but the state remains.

— Louis XIV

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

— Louis XIV

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death…

— Louis XIV

The Pyrenees are no more.

— Louis XIV

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

— Louis XIV

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

— Louis XIV

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility…

— Louis XIV

I see no point in reading.

— Louis XIV

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building,…

— Louis XIV

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

— Louis XIV

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other…

— Louis XIV

Every time I fill a whole with someone, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

— Louis XIV

It is impossible to please all the world.

— Louis XIV

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now…

— Louis XIV

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the…

— Louis XIV

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

— Louis XIV

I am the state.

— Louis XIV

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

— Louis XIV

Only small minds want always to be right.

— Louis XIV