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" Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. "
Ah
King
Lose
" Always follow good counsels. "
Good
Always
Follow
" 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. "
God
Owe
Nobody
" Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. "
Ungrateful
Time
Someone
" First feelings are always the most natural. "
Always
Natural
Most
" Has God forgotten all I have done for Him. "
God
Him
Done
" I am dying, but the state remains. "
State
Dying
Am
" I am the state. "
Am
State
I Am
" I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. "
Funny
Sooner
Than
" I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it. "
Made
Been
Know
" It is impossible to please all the world. "
Please
Impossible
World
" It is legal because I wish it. "
Wish
I Wish
Because
" Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. "
Legal
Laws
" 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. "
Me
War
Peace
" My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons. "
War
Divided
Only
" Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him. "
Render
Recognize
Him
" That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins. "
Suffer
Like
Me
" The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer. "
Me
King
Follow
" The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall. "
Kings
Fall
Danger
" The Pyrenees are no more. "
More
" There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. "
Conquer
Man
Little
" We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest. "
Than
Meanest
Live
" You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done. "
Death
Me
Know
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