“The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.”
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Famous Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
Source: Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
“Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.”
“Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.”
“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.”
Source: The stone-mason of Saint Point: a village tale. Translated from the French
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”
“Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!”
“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”
Source: History of the French Revolution of 1848