Quote #13
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
More from Alphonse de Lamartine
- Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
- Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
- A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
- Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
- Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
- There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
- The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
- Our only truth is our sorrow.