Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.