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It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.


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CHARLES DE LEUSSE 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 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 If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT 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