Alphonse de Lamartine

“Peace at any price.”

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

“God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world”

“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 e...”

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

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

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

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

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

“Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.”

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”