About Alphonse de Lamartine:
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Un seul être vous manque, et tout est dépeuplé. (Miss one person and the world seems empty.)
Alphonse de LamartineLimited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de LamartineTo love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de LamartineIf one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de LamartinePoets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de LamartineBrutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine