Louis XIV Quotes

• It is legal because I wish it.

  Louis XIV

  Government, Feet, Wish

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• One king, one law, one faith.

  Louis XIV

  Kings, Law, Absolutism

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• Only small minds want always to be right.

  Louis XIV

  Mind, Want, Small Minds

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

  Louis XIV

  Royalty, States

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• Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

  Louis XIV

  Victory, Guarantees, Defeat

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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.

  Louis XIV

  Government, Order, Each Day

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

  Louis XIV

  Winning, Men, Discipline

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• In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

  Louis XIV

  Agreement, Broken, States

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• Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

  Louis XIV

  Done, Forgotten, Last Words

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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.

  Louis XIV

  Past, Men, Years

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• First feelings are always the most natural.

  Louis XIV

  War, Feelings, Firsts

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

  Louis XIV

  Ungrateful, Unhappy, Hundred

  "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.

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

  Louis XIV

  Imagine, Immortal, Last Words

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• I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

  Louis XIV

  Women, Europe, Two

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

  Louis XIV

  Kings, Should, Temper

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

  Louis XIV

  Grief, Wife, Heaven

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 868-871), 1922.

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• I see no point in reading.

  Louis XIV

  Reading, No Point

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• Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

  Louis XIV

  Law

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

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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• The Last Argument of Kings.

  Louis XIV

  Kings, Finals, Lasts

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

  Louis XIV

  Office, Political, Ingrates

  Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.

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