156 Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

History teaches everything, even the future.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

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.

We don’t have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don’t have any.

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past’s dark shade ’tis chas’d; As a grand image love remains to me – Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac’d.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.