François Mitterrand's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#24424
It is in the nature of a great nation to design great designs.

François Mitterrand
(Investiture à l’Elysée - 21 Mai 1981)

#24425
When Europe opens his mouth, it is to yawn.

François Mitterrand
(L'Unité - 1977)

#24426
Clarity is the most difficult form of courage.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24427
Life... We start, continue, you get older, people disappear. It's a general rhythm.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24428
Think of the dead, is to ensure the survival of the people we've loved, while others will do it for you.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24429
I always hear that God is just. I wonder which allows to support this assertion.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24430
Before approaching the world, it is very demanding. For yourself and for the world.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24431
Faith, when it takes a spirit or a soul is stronger than scientific reason.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24432
It's hurt a people in the depths of itself to achieve in its culture and its language.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24433
The politician is expressed first by his actions; It's who he is an accountant; speech and written are only parts support to the service of his work of action.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24434
God? I don't know if I believe it. I have regrets not having a simple design creation and its creator.

François Mitterrand
(Bouillon de culture - avril 1995)

#24435
In politics, we do not, we don't create real friendships. There are a few good companions.

François Mitterrand
(Autrement - Juin 1982)

#24436
Man is no longer able to accept work without creating or participate in decisions.

François Mitterrand
(Paris - 13 Février 1983)

#24437
I'm not press, complaining either that I'm used, or that I am resigned.

François Mitterrand
(5 Janvier 1982)

#24438
The French are beginning to understand that it is the company that creates wealth, that determines our standard of living and our place in the global hierarchy.

François Mitterrand
(Challenge - 1er Mai 1984)

#24439
On the construction of these always new values for these daily battles that call themselves freedom, equality, fraternity, no volunteer is too much.

François Mitterrand
(Investiture à l’Elysée - 21 Mai 1988)

#24440
The role of the political in art is not of putting on a show.

François Mitterrand
(Connaissance des Arts - Avril 1981)

#24441
What is old age? It is first lose the curiosity.

François Mitterrand
(Mitterrand par Mitterrand)

#24442
Freedom of the press has disadvantages. But less than the absence of freedom.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24443
Beside the real great men exist who believe being, countless, perched on each floor of the scale of grandeur.

François Mitterrand
(Revue Montalembert - Avril 1936)

#24444
Do not change, or so that the change became a habit.

François Mitterrand
(Chine - 15 Février 1981)

#24445
The evidence must be often recalled. I wonder if I don't spend most of my time to it.

François Mitterrand
(Vive la radio - 25 Octobre 1991)

#24446
Usually, this mortal comfort.

François Mitterrand
(Mitterrand par Mitterrand)

#24447
Like other cannabis, grown at home the wave to the soul, small sweet and harmful drugs.

François Mitterrand
(Ici et maintenant)

#24448
The sense of injustice is not enough to defeat injustice.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24449
The great fortunes are not on the paths of virtue.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24450
Being a teacher, this isn't a career choice, it's a lifestyle choice.

François Mitterrand
(7 sur 7 - 12 février 1989)

#24451
If we do not reject the world, then trying to conquer it.

François Mitterrand
(Lettre à sa soeur)

#24452
What first communicant has wanted to be Pope?

François Mitterrand
(La rose au poing)

#24453
Without falling into an excess of realism, it's the least of the things to consider that the Germany is in Europe.

François Mitterrand
(7 sur 7 - 25 Mars 1990)

#24454
Inflation, for the poor, premium tax for the rich, is the oxygen of the system. Look at that horse is.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24455
The courage is to overcome his fears, not to not be afraid.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24456
Evil you can imagine is unbearable, is that there is almost always bearable.

François Mitterrand
(Mémoire à deux voix)

#24457
In life, we must try to develop cycles ranging from fatigue to enthusiasm.

François Mitterrand
(Actuel - Décembre 1987)

#24458
Politics is the handmaiden of science, and the humble performer of philosophy. It doesn't have the creative according to art.

François Mitterrand
(Ma part de vérité)

#24459
It is sometimes good to be pessimistic, it avoids a prolonged sleep.

François Mitterrand
(Conférence de presse - 21 Novembre 1990)

#24460
To talk about the army informed, must have been second class.

François Mitterrand
(L'Homme libre - 22 Juin 1945)

#24461
In politics, it must be offensive. If we fight, we've already lost.

François Mitterrand
(Libération - 24 Mars 1988)

#24462
A dictator has no competitor to its size as long as the people is not the challenge.

François Mitterrand
(Le Coup d'Etat permanent)

#24463
Why we fought so hard for freedom? Because she is like bread, existential.

François Mitterrand
(L'Express - Juillet 1989)

#24464
Agree with yourself, I do not have better health newsletter!

François Mitterrand
(Ici et maintenant)

#24465
To write is to empty his bag.

François Mitterrand
(Le Quotidien de Paris - 13 Mars 1986)

#24466
Political action, at certain times, is like the surgeon's scalpel, she leaves no room for uncertainty.

François Mitterrand
(Ma part de vérité)

#24467
A policy that merely stir dreams wrong them all. A policy that ignores them is mistaken about the nature of those it pretends to drive.

François Mitterrand
(France-Soir - 23 Novembre 1970)

#24468
Freedom is perhaps, ultimately, for each, that the mere possession of silence.

François Mitterrand
(Les Prisonniers de guerre devant la politique)

#24469
Old age is not a matter of death, it is a health issue because death is certain.

François Mitterrand
(François Mitterrand, Portrait total)

#24470
Responsibilities invading us, it's true. But, without them, which is what we're bored.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24471
The intelligence? It is the thing of the world best shared. The will, that it is more rare.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24472
We learn nothing by the word, but all by the example.

François Mitterrand
(Mitterrand par Mitterrand)

#24473
I was born a Christian, and I will die in this State. In the meantime...

François Mitterrand
(La paille et le grain)

#24474
Freedom and democracy require a permanent effort. Impossible that love them to fall asleep.

François Mitterrand
(L'Express - Juillet 1989)

#24475
The economy is simple. It is two columns: a column expenditure and revenue column. Any housewife will tell you.

François Mitterrand
(Interview - 18 Mars 1986)

#24476
The mood of the judges is not the criminal code.

François Mitterrand
(Le Monde - 19 Juin 1990)

#24477
When a Minister speaks on TV, there are always the impression he began to apologize.

François Mitterrand
(Le Canard enchaîné - 4 Mars 1992)

#24478
The story goes through the same paths as the geography.

François Mitterrand
(TF1 - Octobre 1989)

#24479
To govern is not pleasing.

François Mitterrand
(France Inter - 22 Octobre 1991)

#24480
The progress has the soul of the one who uses it.

François Mitterrand
(L'Express - 13 Juillet 1989)

#24481
In the decisive tests we don't properly cross the hurdle of face.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24482
Women are much less well than men. But when they are better, they are much better than them.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24483
Always a strong character who Stoops goes further in the zeal what a soft spot that doesn't have to beat money of his selflessness.

François Mitterrand
(Le coup d'Etat permanent)

#24484
In politics it is anyone's father... We have some friends, sometimes two or three disciples, but children ever.

François Mitterrand
(Le Canard enchaîné - 19 avril 1989)

#24485
When the franc was feverish, that's the France that is sick.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24486
When the France meets a great idea, they do together around the world.

François Mitterrand
(Ici et maintenant)

#24487
The excess of the language is a customary process to anyone who wants to create a diversion.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24488
Let tyranny reign over one square meter, it will soon win the surface of the Earth.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24489
Who loves death loves life.

François Mitterrand
(Lire - 1978)

#24490
Who's afraid of his own shadow waiting for noon to get up. Meanwhile, the others run.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24491
It is not good injury to freedom, they are all deadly.

François Mitterrand
(Assemblée Nationale - 9 Octobre 1973)

#24492
There are collective powers that are as dangerous as the personal power.

François Mitterrand
(Dire - 15 Décembre 1969)

#24493
If I like those who have questions, I am wary of those who are.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24494
It all comes down to this: win or lose. We are never stationary. As not to move is to start losing.

François Mitterrand
(Lettre à une de ses soeurs - 5 Mars 1938)

#24495
We will wear if it used, although we know that those who are useless wear out a lot!

François Mitterrand
(Conférence de presse - 11 Septembre 1991)

#24496
The worst mistake is not in failure but unable to dominate the failure.

François Mitterrand
(Ma part de vérité)

#24497
The statesman is unique in its ability to take into account the unknown lands, once else explored.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24498
Equality is never acquired; It is always a struggle.

François Mitterrand
(Message à SOS Racisme - 13 Mars 1989)

#24499
Better to keep in place a docile opponent that install a wayward friend.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24500
There is still a future for those who believe in the future.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24501
"Tell me who you do judge, and I'll tell you who you are." It is not in politics to safer axiom.

François Mitterrand
(Le Coup d'Etat permanent)

#24503
What would the francophonie if no one spoke french?

François Mitterrand
(Le Monde selon Mitterrand, Michèle Cotta, février 2015)

#24504
Created for eternity, even if she is in charge of deny.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24505
I'm an agnostic. Which does not mean I don't believe, but I don't know if I believe.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24506
A question that does arise is the safest way to prove that it arises.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24507
If the youth is not always right, society who misunderstands her and strikes her is always wrong.

François Mitterrand
(Discours à l'Assemblée nationale - 8 Mai 1968)

#24508
Democracy, it is also the institutional right to talk nonsense.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24509
In the meetings, once, I explained that 2 x 2 sometimes equal 5. Sometimes, when we're wrong, it can do 3.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24510
The Center, soft variety of the right.

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

#24511
The journalist, he can write anything and be wrong about everything, that does not change, its newspapers still selling as well or as badly.

François Mitterrand
(La fin d'une époque)

#24512
The dictatorship of the microphone is also that of the idiots.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24513
Say yes, to be able to say no.

François Mitterrand
(Source inconnue)

#24514
My freedom is worth if I assume the others. The freedom of our opponents isn't as ours?

François Mitterrand
(L'abeille et l'architecte)

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