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Louis Xiv

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

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

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

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    First feelings are always the most natural.

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    Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

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    Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

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    I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

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    Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

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    I see no point in reading.

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    One king, one law, one faith.

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    Only small minds want always to be right.

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    The Last Argument of Kings.

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

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    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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    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.

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

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