Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• 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?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mean, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

• 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? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Mean, Army

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

• 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?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Spiritual, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

• True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Greatness, Sovereign, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1891). “Lamartine's Works ...”

• The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Character, Greatness, Choices

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.157

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