Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Mankind, Only, Cruelty, Animal
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Sympathy, Two, Bonds, Sufferings
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
World, Sometimes, Person, Missing
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Travel, Single, Give, Glance
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Experience, Wise, Men, Prophecy
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Itself, Providence, Unveiled, Human Affairs
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Habit, Iron, Leads, Sinews
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Love, Loved, Loving, Angelic
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Never, Private, Public, Passions
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Politics, See, More, Representatives
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Heroes, Race, Same, Conceive
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Only, Move, Affect, Orator
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Desire, Fallen, His, Remembers
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Judge, Conscience, Like, Court
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Love, Woman, Things, Great Things
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