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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Attraction Character Difficult Himself Man Potential Realization
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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
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 may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself

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