Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

“Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.”

“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”

“A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.”

“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”

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

“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”

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

“Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination”

“Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet”

“Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.”

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

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

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

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

“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.”

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?

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

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

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

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?