Louis XIV Quotes

• The function of kings consists primarily of using good sense, which always comes naturally and easily. Our work is sometimes less difficult than our amusements.

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• How could God do this to me after all I have done for him?

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• Every time that I fill a high office, I make one hundred men discontented and one ungrateful.

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• Everyone knows how much trouble your meetings have caused in my State, and how many dangerous results they have had. I have learnt that you intend to continue  them. I have come here expressly to forbid you to do this, which I do absolutely.

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• And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I’m hoping there is. If that doesn’t happen I will be disappointed.

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

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• The Pyrenees are no more.

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• It is legal because I wish it.

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• I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

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• I am the state.

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• Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

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• First feelings are always the most natural.

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

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

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

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• It is legal because I wish it.

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• I am the State.

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• I would have praised you more had you praised me less.

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

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Birth:	5th September, 1638
Death:	1st September, 1715
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Royalty

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