You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE No nation has friends only interests
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CHARLES DE GAULLE You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country th...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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 I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who tak...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You'll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much...
CHARLES DE GAULLE A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, cell...
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE 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 I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I was France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE 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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Honest labour bears a lovely face.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown
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CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
CHARLES DE GAULLE One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing more advances authority than silence.
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YVONNE DE GAULLE Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU 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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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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CHARLES DE LINT The love of democracy is that of equality.
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CHARLES DE LINT I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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 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
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