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Charles de Gaulle

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Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"

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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
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I was France.
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To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
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The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
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I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally ...
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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...
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Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which...
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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that...
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who tak...
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much...
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
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We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
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I was France.
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To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
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The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of chees...
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that h...
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
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I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Honest labour bears a lovely face.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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What do you take me for, an idiot? [when asked if he was happy]
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?
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I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and m...
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
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Nothing more advances authority than silence.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks thr...
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The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
YVONNE DE GAULLE
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
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If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....
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I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its ...
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, a...
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays inv...
CHARLES DE LINT
The love of democracy is that of equality.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society ...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. S...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl...
CHARLES DE LINT
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerte...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy,...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you...
CHARLES DE LINT
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Libert...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are alread...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magi...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...
CHARLES DE LINT
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
CHARLES DE LINT
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
CHARLES DE LINT
There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the m...
CHARLES DE LINT
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.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same ti...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...
CHARLES DE LINT
Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT
Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilitie...
CHARLES DE LINT
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and m...
CHARLES DE LINT
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
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
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 ?)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles vo...
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
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
CHARLES DE LINT
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
CHARLES DE LINT
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the politic...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Dinosaurs were big ; likewise, their bones. (Dinosaures furent grands ; - De même, leurs ossements....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il m...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
“We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU