Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Betting 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.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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