Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 2

Kindness is virtue itself.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

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? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

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

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

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

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

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

Utopias are often just premature truths.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

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

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Good manners require space and time.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.