Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France has no friends, only interests.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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