Louis XIV quotes:

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

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

The Last Argument of Kings.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

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

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

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

I am the state.

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.

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

First feelings are always the most natural.

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

The final argument of kings

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

One king, one law, one faith.

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.]

It is legal because I wish it.

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

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

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

I see no point in reading.

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.

Only small minds want always to be right.

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.