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

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
- Louis XIV Quote

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
- Louis XIV Quote

First feelings are always the most natural.
- Louis XIV Quote

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
- Louis XIV Quote

I am the state.
- Louis XIV Quote

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
- Louis XIV Quote

It is legal because I wish it.
- Louis XIV Quote

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
- Louis XIV Quote

The Pyrenees are no more.
- Louis XIV Quote