Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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