Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Love, Great, Woman

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Love, Human, Loved

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Person, Sometimes, Whole

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Sympathy, Happiness, Two

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Nature, God, Desire

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience, Men, Wise

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Difference, Mankind, Victim

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Alphonse de Lamartine

God, Judge, Conscience

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Travel, Single, Give

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Politics, Dogs, Admire

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Habit, Iron, Leads

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Same, Race, Heroes

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Themselves, Public, Private

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Alphonse de Lamartine

History, Human, Details

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Understand, Move, Affect

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: October 21, 1790

Died: February 28, 1869

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