Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

First feelings are always the most natural.

I am the state.

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

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

It is legal because I wish it.

The Pyrenees are no more.

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

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.