Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Silence
Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day?
—Alphonse de Lamartine
History teaches everything including the future.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: History
Women have more heart and more imagination than men.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Woman
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Historians, History
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Freedom
The death of a man’s wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes, falls upon the widower’s heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground. His eyes are dimmed and glassy, and when the film of death falls over him, he misses those accustomed tones which might have smoothed his passage to the grave.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Wife
When the press is the echo of sages and reformers, it works well; when it is the echo of turbulent cynics, it merely feeds political excitement.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore, it rushes on and carries us with it.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Present
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Woman, Success & Failure, Beginning, Achievement
Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Habits, Habit
At twenty, everyone is republican.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Heroes/Heroism, Heroes, Heroism, Absence, World, Love
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
—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
Topics: History
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Speakers, Speaking
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Dogs
If God is thy father, man is thy brother.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Grief, Grieving
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Truth
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Conscience
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works of this genius are always works of love.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Woman
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Poets, Poetry
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Cities, City Life
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Emotions
Fine manners are a stronger bond than a beautiful face. The former binds; the latter only attracts.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Manners
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: History
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
Silence,—the applause of real and durable impressions.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
Topics: Silence
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