Old age is a shipwreck.

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"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

- Charles de Gaulle

Love

"“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”"

- Charles de Gaulle

Belief

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

- Charles de Gaulle

Compassion

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

- Charles de Gaulle

Reflection

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

- Charles de Gaulle

Philosophy

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity