Alphonse De Lamartine Quotes

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

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

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

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

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

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

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

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

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

~ Alphonse De Lamartine