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I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
- Louis XIV
#Bought
#Know
#Made
#Powerlessness
#Will
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.
- Louis XIV
#Calm
#Death
#Father
#Me
#Rest
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.
- Louis XIV
#Ambition
#Danger
#Fall
#Kings
#Will
Always follow good counsels.
- Louis XIV
#Always
#Follow
#Good
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.
- Louis XIV
#God
#Hope
#Mercy
#Nobody
#Owe
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
- Louis XIV
#Court
#Divided
#Only
#Peace
#War
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
- Louis XIV
#Laws
#Legal
The Pyrenees are no more.
- Louis XIV
#More
We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
- Louis XIV
#Less
#Live
#Than
#While
#Wish
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
- Louis XIV
#Like
#Me
#More
#Should
#Troubles
Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
- Louis XIV
#God
#Obligations
#Owe
#Recognize
#Render
I am dying, but the state remains.
- Louis XIV
#Am
#Dying
#I Am
#Remains
#State
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.
- Louis XIV
#Great
#King
#Me
#Peace
#War
First feelings are always the most natural.
- Louis XIV
#Always
#Feelings
#First
#Most
#Natural
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
- Louis XIV
#Could
#Europe
#Funny
#Sooner
#Two
#Women
It is impossible to please all the world.
- Louis XIV
#All The World
#Impossible
#Please
#World
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
- Louis XIV
#Done
#Forgotten
#God
#Him
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
- Louis XIV
#King
#Lose
#Should
#Temper
#Were
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
- Louis XIV
#Conquer
#Little
#Man
#Strength
#Who
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
- Louis XIV
#Make
#Position
#Someone
#Time
#Unhappy
I am the state.
- Louis XIV
#Am
#I Am
#State
It is legal because I wish it.
- Louis XIV
#Because
#I Wish
#Legal
#Wish
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