The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.


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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
I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher posses...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
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
Research is the highest form of adoration
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
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 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
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
Siamo sinceri: noi nei nostri rapporti, tanto freddi quanto facili, chiamiamo felicità ciò che app...
LACLOS, PIERRE CHODERLOS DE
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
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
What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS
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
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