Zitat des Tages von Louis XIV:
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
I am dying, but the state remains.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
The Pyrenees are no more.
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
It is legal because I wish it.
I am the state.
First feelings are always the most natural.
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.
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
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.
We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
It is impossible to please all the world.