Louis XIV Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Louis XIV:

First feelings are always the most natural.

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

Louis XIV

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Louis XIV

I am dying, but the state remains.

Louis XIV

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

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The Pyrenees are no more.

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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

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It is legal because I wish it.

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I am the state.

Louis XIV

First feelings are always the most natural.

Louis XIV

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

Louis XIV

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

Louis XIV

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

Louis XIV

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

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We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

Louis XIV

It is impossible to please all the world.

Louis XIV