Alphonse de Lamartine
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Collection: Sympathy
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.Collection: Love
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.Collection: Great
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.Collection: Experience
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.Collection: Politics
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.Collection: History
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.Collection: Travel
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.Collection: Nature
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.Collection: Life
A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.Collection: Gentleness
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.Collection: Heart
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.Collection: Music
History teaches everything, even the future.Collection: Art
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.Collection: Men
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.Collection: Heart
Argument should be polite as well as logical.Collection: Argument
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.Collection: Love
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.Collection: Nature
The most effective coquetry is innocence.Collection: Coquetry
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.Collection: Heart
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.Collection: Love
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?Collection: Mean
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.Collection: Dog
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.Collection: Inspiration
Kindness is virtue itself.Collection: Kindness
There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.Collection: Sweet
Man is God by his faculty for thought.Collection: Men
I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!Collection: Believe
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.Collection: Character
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.Collection: Fighting
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.Collection: Death
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.Collection: Ambition
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.Collection: Ignorance
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.Collection: Men
Ink is the transcript of thought.Collection: Ink
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.Collection: Women
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.Collection: Enthusiasm
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.Collection: Mistress
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.Collection: Fall
My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.Collection: Dog
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.Collection: Istanbul
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?Collection: Life