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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE 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 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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE 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)
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