Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of ever...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
PIERRE Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! closed o...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Our friends, the enemy.
[Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends,
for one of our friends will certa...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE In Paris a queer little man you may see,
A little man all in gray;
Rosy and round as an apple ...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!
For me her constant flame appears;
The garland she hath cu...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting,
The parting hour is come!
And fast thy soul is fleeting
...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, h...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as
diligently as I have served the king,...
PIERRE DE BOURDEILLES ("BRANTOME") Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,
Their enemies were targets, their bulle...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Come to the Bible, not to study the hi...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to re...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
PIERRE SIMON DE LAPLACE And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide,
There was no cause for weeping, save wh...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark prof...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe th...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of ...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal...
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Siamo sinceri: noi nei nostri rapporti, tanto freddi quanto facili, chiamiamo felicità ciò che app...
LACLOS, PIERRE CHODERLOS DE Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, n...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The crimin...
PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS That which is not worth speaking they sing.
[Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Floria...
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Everything ends with songs.
[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS