Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.


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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
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