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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
"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
"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
Man
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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Personal Development
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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Personal Development
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