Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

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• There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

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  Life, Change, Travel

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• Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

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  Love, Farewell, Missing

  "Meditations Poetiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• History teaches everything, even the future.

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  Art, Philosophy, Teaching

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

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• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

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  Funny, Dog, People

  Letter to John Forster, 1850.

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• A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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  God, Judging, Court

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• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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  Heart, Animal, Men

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• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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  Music, Art, Literature

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• Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Hours, Harbors

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

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  Travel, Istanbul, Cities

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• Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

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  Civilization, Excess, Barbarism

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• Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

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  Flames, Joy, Alive

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• Argument should be polite as well as logical.

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  Argument, Logical, Should

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• It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

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  Heart, Long, Rose

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• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

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  Nature, Men, Heaven

  "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• Utopias are often just premature truths.

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  Utopia, Premature

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• Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

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  Love, Heart, Dawn

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• A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

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  Gentleness

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

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  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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  Wise, Men, Experience

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

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• There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

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  Sweet, Eye, Night

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• The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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  Coquetry, Innocence

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• We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

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  Heart, Animal, Two

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• Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

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  Freedom, Void, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.111

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• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

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  Hours, Passing, Enjoy

  "The Lake". Poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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