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Man Quotes by Charles de Gaulle
- 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.
- Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
- Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
- I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
- Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his…
- A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his…
- Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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