“I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!” PeopleIfsWorldShouldBelieveJoyI BelieveEnjoyChanceSecretBirthLuckyI Believe InEaseBelieve In GodLoserSavagesWoeLotteryDiceI Believe In God Book:Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People
“Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.” GivingShouldAsksChance Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)” MeanArtChancePhotographyInventionContemptuousServilityOptics Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.” IfsWorldLooksLastsWishChanceIstanbulLast Chance Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
