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

— Alphonse de Lamartine Histoire de la Turquie (1854)

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Graziella (1852)

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Méditations Poétiques (1820)

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Méditations Poétiques (1820)

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Utopias are often only premature truths.

Histoire des Girondins (1847)

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