Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBetting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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