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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
The future does not belong to men.
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
France has no friends, only interests.
France cannot be France without greatness.
Now she is like everyone else.