Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for. J.P. CLARIS DE FLORIAN 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 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
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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") 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 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 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 ... 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