156 Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Kindness is virtue itself.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

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.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.