Quotes by
Alphonse de Lamartin |
1790-1869 , French poet
French poet, historian, and statesman who achieved renown for his lyrics in Méditations poétiques (1820), which established him as one of the main figures in the Romantic movement in French literature. In 1847 his Histoire des Girondins became widely popular, and he rose to considerable political prominence in early 1848, when he led the Second Republic for a short time.
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Quotations
| • | Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems deserted. 4 |
| • | There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. 3 |
| • | I am tired of museums. Museums are the cemeteries of art. 3 |
| • | Limited in his nature, infinite in his wishes, Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. 2 |
| • | What crime have we committed to deserve to be born? 1 |
| • | “God” is just a word we dreamed up to explain the world. 1 |
| • | A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. 1 |
| • | It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. 1 |
| • | At twenty every one is a democrat. 1 |
| • | Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. 1 |
| • | Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. 1 |
| • | The most effective coquetry is innocence. 1 |
| • | History teaches everything, even the future. 1 |
| • | There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times. 1 |
| • | Death has always been the asylum of glory. 1 |
| • | Glory erases everything, everything except crime. 1 |
| • | He who can create disdains to destroy. 1 |
| • | We admire the world through what we love. 1 |
| • | Poets are the voices of those who have no voice. 1 |
