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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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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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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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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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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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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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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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