Quote #16
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
More from Alphonse de Lamartine
- Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
- Our only truth is our sorrow.
- Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
- What crime have we commited in order to be born?
- If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
- God is nothing but a dream word, in order to explain the existence of the world.
- Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
- I am tired of museums - these cemeteries of art.