Louis XIV — "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 one ungrateful.
Louis XIV — Louis XIV Early Modern · Sun King of France

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On the difficulties of governance

Date: 1670s

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