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Alphonse de Lamartine [1790-1869] French
Rank: 103
Poet, Writer


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.

Love, Experience, Happiness, Politics, Sympathy, Travel



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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
101
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. Politics
102
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
103
There is a woman at the begining of all great things. Love
104
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. Travel
105
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Experience
106
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Love
107
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
108
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
109
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
110
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Happiness, Sympathy
111
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
112
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
113
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
114
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
115

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