Alphonse de Lamartine

Who was Alphonse de Lamartine?

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine 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.

Famous Quotes:

• Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
• If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
• Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
• Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
• A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
• There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
• The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.