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All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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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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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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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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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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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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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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Good manners require space and time.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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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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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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