There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire
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PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of ...
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PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do...
PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most impor...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to dis...
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobi...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or gener...
PIERRE DE FERMAT Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of t...
PIERRE DE FERMAT Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the in...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a ...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
PIERRE DE FERMAT I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.
PIERRE DE FERMAT To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powe...
PIERRE DE FERMAT The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal ...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the spo...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Swifter, higher, stronger.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... t...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
PIERRE DE FERMAT Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas t...
PIERRE DE FERMAT A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of.
PIERRE DE VOS I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
PIERRE DE FERMAT Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN All sports for all people.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have foug...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult:...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sp...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in...
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 I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredn...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Am...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are s...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friends...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! closed o...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense ful...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 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 Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 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 We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, cou...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collabor...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 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 I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is t...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to oth...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical concilia...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the e...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinion...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History -...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in rain...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produc...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-le...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that function...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other word...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, h...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its le...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. Bu...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of th...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landown...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by per...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the obje...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate ea...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and f...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 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 I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of know...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geologic...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing t...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the d...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Come to the Bible, not to study the hi...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern tim...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to whi...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all oth...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistan...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of th...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace mar...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to re...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own s...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No othe...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual w...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 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 The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher posses...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Research is the highest form of adoration
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remain...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by co...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it an...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that h...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lo...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN 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 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 What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'�...
PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold al...
PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS My family background was deeply Christian.
ABBE PIERRE And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative ...
ABBE PIERRE Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...
PIERRE TRUDEAU To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
ABBE PIERRE I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
ABBE PIERRE Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
ABBE PIERRE Hope is not a matter of age.
ABBE PIERRE