More from Alphonse de Lamartine

  1. Our only truth is our sorrow.
  2. God is nothing but a dream word, in order to explain the existence of the world.
  3. There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
  4. I am tired of museums - these cemeteries of art.
  5. Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
  6. Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
  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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