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

Quote by Louis XIV

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

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

First feelings are always the most natural.

First feelings are always the most natural.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

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

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

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one...

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one...

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

I am the state.

I am the state.

It is legal because I wish it.

It is legal because I wish it.

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

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

And when a wave like mountains covers them they call upon Allah, being sincere to...

And when a wave like mountains covers them they call upon Allah, being sincere to...

Therefore remember Me, I will remember you, and be thankful to Me, and do not...

Therefore remember Me, I will remember you, and be thankful to Me, and do not...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

This we requited them with because they disbelieved; and We do not punish any but...

This we requited them with because they disbelieved; and We do not punish any but...

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do...

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do...

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from him,...

And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from him,...

Allah does not bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Allah does...

Allah does not bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Allah does...

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.