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Paris isn't a city, it's a world.
Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.
The interests of the state must come first.
I have no intention of sharing my authority.
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
I will simply deny you the crown, and..... Live forever!
I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.