Louis XIV famous quotes

04-12-2025

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

#War #Feelings #Firsts
Impatience for victory guarantees defeat
-- Louis XIV

#Victory #Guarantees #Defeat
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
-- Louis XIV

#Men #Discipline #Littles
Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
-- Louis XIV

#Imagine #Immortal #Last Words
It is legal because I wish it.
-- Louis XIV

#Government #Feet #Wish
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
-- Louis XIV

#Thinking #Immortal #Last Words
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]
-- Louis XIV

#Grief #Wife #Heaven
I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]
-- Louis XIV

#Royalty #States
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.
-- Louis XIV

#Government #Order #Each Day
The final argument of kings
-- Louis XIV

#Kings #Finals #Argument
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
-- Louis XIV

#Office #Political #Ingrates
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
-- Louis XIV

#Women #Europe #Two
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
-- Louis XIV

#Kings #Should #Temper
Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?
-- Louis XIV

#Done #Forgotten #Last Words
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
-- Louis XIV

#Ungrateful #Unhappy #Hundred
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
-- Louis XIV

#Law

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