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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself

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