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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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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Kindness is virtue itself.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Utopias are often just premature truths.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
Alphonse de Lamartine
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Alphonse de Lamartine
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
Alphonse de Lamartine
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Good manners require space and time.
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