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Charles de Lint

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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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CHARLES DE SECONDAT Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
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CHARLES DE SECONDAT Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Old age is a shipwreck.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Judas did not make only one kiss. (Judas n'a pas fait qu'une seule bise)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The black clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe. (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A kiss on one cheek makes her blush both cheeks. (Un bisou sur une joue - Fait rougir les deux joues...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoir...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)
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CHARLES DE LEUSSE Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatalit...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Kissing hides the lips; but shows our love. (S'embrasser cache les lèvres ; - Mais montre notre amo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The waves lie down on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s’allongent sur la p...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE