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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
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
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
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
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule

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