What did Alphonse de Lamartine mean by: To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France Copy
+ Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Enjoyment, Love, Time, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ Unanimity is the mistress of strength. Author, June 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Power, Strength, Unity, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ I say to this night: “Pass more slowly”; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Hope, Patience, Time, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gender, Perception, Power, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ Man is born barbarous–he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Barbarism, Cultivation, Humanity, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ Man is God by his faculty for thought. Author, August 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, God, Man, Thought, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Biography, History, Scale, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
+ Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alphonse de Lamartine, Communication, Emotion, Expression, 0 Alphonse de Lamartine Writer · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
