The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce 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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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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These people really aim very badly.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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