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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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