Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: World)

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Love, Being)

"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Woman)

"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: People)

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: People, Dogs)

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: World)

"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: History, Providence)

"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: God, Nature, Desire, Heaven, Infinite, Man)

"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Heroes, Poets, Race)

"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Habit, Day)

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Happiness, Grief)

"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Experience, Men, Prophecy)

"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Cruelty, Difference, Mankind)

"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: God, Conscience, Court)