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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.


Charles de Gaulle

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CHARLES DE LEUSSE Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)
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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 ?)
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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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