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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

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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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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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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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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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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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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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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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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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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