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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Charles de Gaulle

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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
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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Favor Myself Talk Travel
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
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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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
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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Attraction Character Difficult Himself Man Potential Realization
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.
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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love

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