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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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