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France has no friends, only interests.

Charles de Gaulle

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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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