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It is for truth that God created genius.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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 enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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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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