A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
First feelings are always the most natural.
I am the State. [Fr. , L'etat c'est moi. ]
One king, one law, one faith.
Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command,. . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport. . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.
It is legal because I wish it.
Impatience for victory guarantees defeat
Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.