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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
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
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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