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

It is legal because I wish it.

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

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

The Pyrenees are no more.

The final argument of kings

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

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

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

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.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

First feelings are always the most natural.

Only small minds want always to be right.

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

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

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

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?