The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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