Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys — Alphonse De Lamartine Copy Share Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
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,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
