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Famous Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
“Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”
“Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.”
“True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.”
“Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.”
“Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.”
“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”
“Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.”
“After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.”
“Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.”
“Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.”
“Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.”
“France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.”
“Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.”
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”