Louis XIV
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.Collection: God
The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.Collection: Death
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.Collection: War
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.Collection: Time
It is legal because I wish it.Collection: Legal
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.Collection: War
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.Collection: Legal
You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.Collection: Death
As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.Collection: Hope
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.Collection: Strength
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.Collection: Funny
The Pyrenees are no more.
I am the state.
It is impossible to please all the world.
Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
First feelings are always the most natural.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
I am dying, but the state remains.
Always follow good counsels.
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
One king, one law, one faith.Collection: Kings
Only small minds want always to be right.Collection: Mind
Impatience for victory guarantees defeatCollection: Victory
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.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Agreement
Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?Collection: Done
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.Collection: Past
Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?Collection: Imagine
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.Collection: Grief
I see no point in reading.Collection: Reading
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?Collection: Death
The Last Argument of Kings.Collection: Kings
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.Collection: Office