The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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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