Every time I appoint someone to a vacant...... Quote by "Louis XIV"

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

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Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
— Louis XIV

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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
— Louis XIV

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I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
— Louis XIV

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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.
— Louis XIV

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We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
— Louis XIV

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