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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.

Charles de Gaulle

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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
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
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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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
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
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Bad Better
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Communism Evolution Inevitable
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
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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Build Image Nation Sword
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
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
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
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
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Climate Diplomat Rain

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