Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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