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Summary
Alphonse de Lamartine was a famous Poet from France, who lived between October 21, 1790 and February 28, 1869. He/she became 78 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection.
Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Alphonse, under the main topics:
Love -
Experience .
Related authors: Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (Poet)
15 Famous quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never"
"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim"
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things"
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul"
"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men"
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic"
"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven"
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys"
"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive"
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day"
"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them"
"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history"
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs"
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated"
"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge"
