More from Alphonse de Lamartine

  1. I say to this night: 'Pass more slowly'; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
  2. Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
  3. O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!
  4. Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
  5. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
  6. Experience is the only prophesy of wise men.
  7. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
  8. The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

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