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.
love farewell missing
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
kindness virtue
Kindness is virtue itself.
love inspirational spiritual
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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?
animal differences brutality
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
details affair providence
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
spiritual greatness men
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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.