Louis XIV quote: "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."

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
LOUIS XIV

I am the state.
LOUIS XIV

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
LOUIS XIV

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

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
LOUIS XIV

It is legal because I wish it.
LOUIS XIV

As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I ho...
LOUIS XIV

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ...
LOUIS XIV

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
LOUIS XIV

Always follow good counsels.
LOUIS XIV

The Pyrenees are no more.
LOUIS XIV

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered on...
LOUIS XIV

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness ...
LOUIS XIV

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

I am dying, but the state remains.
LOUIS XIV

It is impossible to please all the world.
LOUIS XIV

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
LOUIS XIV

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, ...
LOUIS XIV

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

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves a...
LOUIS XIV

First feelings are always the most natural.
LOUIS XIV

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

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV

Everything starts with the customer.
LOUIS XIV

I very nearly had to wait!
LOUIS XIV

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
LOUIS XIV

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
LOUIS XIV

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women
LOUIS XIV

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE

Love is the absence of judgment.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
DALAI LAMA XIV

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt th...
DALAI LAMA XIV

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter w...
DALAI LAMA XIV

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or no...
DALAI LAMA XIV

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
DALAI LAMA XIV

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
DALAI LAMA XIV

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no...
DALAI LAMA XIV

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he...
DALAI LAMA XIV

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our ow...
DALAI LAMA XIV

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
DALAI LAMA XIV

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
DALAI LAMA XIV

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your ro...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I a...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and hap...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own g...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ar...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for e...
DALAI LAMA XIV

NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too muc...
DALAI LAMA XIV

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received
wisdom. But we cannot escape th...
DALAI LAMA XIV

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving t...
DALAI LAMA XIV

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.
DALAI LAMA XIV

If we think only of ourselves, forget about other people, then our minds occupy very small area. Ins...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the u...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
DALAI LAMA XIV

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
DALAI LAMA XIV

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main mind...
DALAI LAMA XIV

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
DALAI LAMA XIV

When life becomes too complicated and we feel overwhelmed, it’s often useful just to stand back an...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans t...
DALAI LAMA XIV

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-...
DALAI LAMA XIV

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I...
DALAI LAMA XIV

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is no...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Jei su aplinkiniais elgiamės draugiškai ir pasikliaudami, patys nurimstame ir atsipalaiduojame. Me...
DALAI LAMA XIV

The purpose of religion is to
control yourself, not to criticise
others.
DALAI LAMA XIV

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer a...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Körperliche Ertüchtigung ist sehr nützlich, aber das geistige Training ist ebenso wichtig.
DALAI LAMA XIV

You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each othe...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
DALAI LAMA XIV

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
DALAI LAMA XIV

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I t...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance
DALAI LAMA XIV

The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialisti...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for ou...
DALAI LAMA XIV

I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morni...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kind...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is ins...
DALAI LAMA XIV

...I discovered a small kitten in the garden, which apparently had been abandoned by its mother. I p...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings...
DALAI LAMA XIV

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our abilit...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or c...
DALAI LAMA XIV

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Because we all share
an identical need for love,
it is possible to feel that
anybo...
DALAI LAMA XIV

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do ...
DALAI LAMA XIV

There is a Possibility of freedom from suffering. By removing the causes of suffering, it is possibl...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it...
DALAI LAMA XIV

If you want others to be happy practice compassion; and if you want yourself to be happy practice co...
DALAI LAMA XIV

happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.
DALAI LAMA XIV

However, if we can transform our attitude towards suffering, adopt an attitude that allows us greate...
DALAI LAMA XIV

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier thr...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even few...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we b...
DALAI LAMA XIV

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama
DALAI LAMA XIV

Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY)

Aphrodite spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her...
HOMER 'THE ILIAD' XIV

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN

I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON

As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Eva...
LOUIS THEROUX

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British peop...
LOUIS THEROUX

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will ...
LOUIS THEROUX

You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR

If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI

Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like ba...
LOUIS THEROUX

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON

Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious ...
LOUIS ARAGON

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
LOUIS GINSBERG

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER

When I approach a child
He inspires in me two sentiments:
Tenderness for what he is,
And r...
LOUIS PASTEUR

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had com...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...
LOUIS C.K.

Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...
LOUIS C.K.

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current wi...
LOUIS SACHAR

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
LOUIS SACHAR

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.
LOUIS THEROUX

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realist, and their tactics ar...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you ha...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
LOUIS NIZER

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be...
LOUIS MACNEICE

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
LOUIS FISCHER

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...
LOUIS NIZER

Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned t...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek ...
LOUIS BINSTOCK

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that whe...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriou...
LOUIS KAPLAN

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars...
God, if you wish for our lo...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
LOUIS BINSTOCK

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfacto...
LOUIS BINSTOCK

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads ...
LOUIS BINSTOCK

From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
LOUIS PASTEUR

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
LOUIS KOSSUTH

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
LOUIS PASTEUR

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
LOUIS DUDEK

One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so muc...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically system...
LOUIS ARAGON

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, n...
LOUIS ARAGON

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
LOUIS ARAGON

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
LOUIS AGASSIZ

It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
LOUIS DEBONNAIRE

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania f...
LOUIS ARAGON

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an obliviou...
LOUIS ARAGON

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled o...
LOUIS ARAGON

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the ...
LOUIS DUDEK

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR

What we play is life.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to fla...
LOUIS ARAGON

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
LOUIS ARAGON

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
LOUIS ARAGON

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who lo...
LOUIS CASSELS

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.

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Louis XIV

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.

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