It is legal because I wish it.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

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.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

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

I am the state.