Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole was a French writer and one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists.
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Trending topics shown first"Not only do we have no real right to the things of the world, because belonging always essentially to God they can never belong to creatures; but we are also limited by the laws of God in the use of t…"
"Jesus ... never laughed. Nothing has ever equaled the seriousness of his life; it is clear that pleasure, recreation, anything that could divert the mind, had no part in it. The life of Jesus was utte…"
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1625
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Birth1695
Died
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