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"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."
Friendship
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
Diplomacy
"Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."
Church
"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."
Time
"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
Perception
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Love
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
Imagination
"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."
Life
"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
Friendship
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."
Politics
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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Personal Development
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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Personal Development
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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Personal Development
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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Personal Development
"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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Personal Development
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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Personal Development
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development
"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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Personal Development
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