Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.