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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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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.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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