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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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