Quotes by Louis Louis XIV

• Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
• Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
• Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
• Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
• First feelings are always the most natural.
• I am the state.
• I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
• It is legal because I wish it.
• Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
• The Pyrenees are no more.
• There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
• Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.