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...
people soul atheism
The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.
believe people joy
I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
moving people feels
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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.
funny dog people
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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.