Alphonse De Lamartine
10 quotations
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.