Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

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

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

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

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

History teaches everything, even the future.

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

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

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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

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

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

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

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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

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

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

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 greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

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