About Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartinewas a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the tricolore as the flag of France.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)