Quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

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

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

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

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.