Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHearing 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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The future does not belong to men.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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