Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz, was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France...
Alphonse de Lamartine quotes about
travel cities istanbul
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
kindness virtue
Kindness is virtue itself.
sympathy death pain
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
friendship sweet heart
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace....
love heart dawn
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
freedom void virtue
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
details affair providence
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
nature men heaven
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
love emo-love great-things
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
ends treason betray
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
people soul atheism
The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.
republic twenties republican
At twenty every one is republican.
ignorance republic bitter
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.