Quotes by Alphonse Lamartine

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Man likes to return to the source; the river does not return to its source. This is because man is an intelligence and the river an element. Past, present, future are one and the same... Man is God by thought. He sees, feels, lives in all points of his existence at the same time. He contemplates himself, understands himself, possesses himself, revives and judges himself by the years he has lived. In a word, he relives as much as he likes to relive through memories. Sometimes this is his suffering, but also his greatness.

"Do not raise your hand against your brother, and do not spill the blood of any living creatures who live on this earth, neither human beings nor pets nor wild animals nor birds. In the depth of your soul some divine voice stops you from spilling this blood. There is life in it. You cannot return this life."