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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

Charles de Gaulle

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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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