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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

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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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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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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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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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!
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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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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