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Danh ngôn của Louis XIV (Sứ mệnh: 5)

It is legal because I wish it.
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
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.
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.
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.