More from Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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