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...
radicalism logic desperation
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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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.
argument logical should
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
time men heaven
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
dog horse elephants
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.
night dawn
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
hours passing enjoy
Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
giving chance should
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
life-is-too-short passion evil
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
beautiful one-day delight
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
art eye should-have
An artist should have more than two eyes.
martyr assassination
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
civilization excess barbarism
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.