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Alphonse de Lamartine

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Biography - Alphonse de Lamartine:

French writer, poet and politician.
Born: 1790 - Died: 1869
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

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



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Quotes for: Desire


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Quotes for: Desire


He has what he desires who can limit his desires to what is enough.





Desire is the essence of a man.





There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.





Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.





My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.





Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.











Quotes for: Infinity


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Quotes for: Infinity


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






One thought, fills immensity.





Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.





Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.





Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.





The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.











Quotes

Quotes for: limit


Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.





The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.





The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.





'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.





Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.





I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.











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Alphonse de Lamartine also said...


We admire the world through what we love.





Miss one person and the world seems empty.





I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.





Utopias are often just premature truths.





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.





Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.












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