Top 120 Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 3

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

52. “Argument should be polite as well as logical.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

53. “Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

55. “Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

56. “The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

57. “Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

58. “Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington – pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc – romantic, devoted, marvelous.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

60. “The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

61. “Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

62. “Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

63. “I say to this night: “Pass more slowly”; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

64. “All our tastes are but reminiscences.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

65. “What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

66. “Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light – instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

67. “If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

68. “Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past’s dark shade ’tis chas’d; As a grand image love remains to me – Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac’d.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

69. “Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

70. “My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

71. “Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

72. “It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

73. “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 some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

74. “Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature, – compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

75. “Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

76. “Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

77. “Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

78. “Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

79. “Void of freedom, what would virtue be?”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

80. “Ink is the transcript of thought.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

81. “Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

82. “Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, ’neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky’s brow my glorious creed I trace.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

83. “It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

84. “Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

85. “Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

86. “Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

87. “Silence, – the applause of real and durable impressions.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

88. “Thou makest the man, O Sorrow! – yes, the whole man, – as the crucible gold.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

89. “Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

91. “Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

92. “Man is God by his faculty for thought.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

93. “It is admirable to die the victim of one’s faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one’s ambition.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

95. “He, who can create, abhors destruction.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

96. “The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

97. “Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

98. “Modesty and dew love the shade.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

99. “It is for truth that God created genius.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

100. “Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine