“Every time that I fill a high office, I create a hundred discontented men and an ingrate.”

— Louis XIV of France

Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents et un ingrat.
Quoted in Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), ch.26

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