Alphonse de Lamartine Men Quotations

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

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

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

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.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

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.