Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

History teaches everything, even the future.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Kindness is virtue itself.

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

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Good manners require space and time.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.