Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz, was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France...
heart lips eloquence
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
fiction microscopes
Fiction is the microscope of truth.
genius
It is for truth that God created genius.
imagination sentiments
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
hero ignorance people
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
love emo-love great-things
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
music heart literature
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
mother fall animal
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
heart men soul
There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
men machines photographer
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
spiritual greatness men
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
details affair providence
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
friendship sweet heart
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace....
men beast born
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.