Quotes by Alphonse Lamartine

• Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
• If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
• There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
• The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
• 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.
• Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
• 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.
• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
• A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.