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

Only small minds want always to be right.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

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

One king, one law, one faith.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.