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

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.

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.