Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
The Last Argument of Kings.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
One king, one law, one faith.
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.