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

Aimer pour être aimé, c'est de l'homme, mais aimer pour aimer c'est presque de l'ange.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Graziella

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Topic

Selflessness Love Human nature

Author

Alphonse de Lamartine

Source

Graziella

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Graziella." Les Confidences, 1849.

Current Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. Graziella, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie. University of Minnesota Press, 2018, pt. 4, ch. 5.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 1, ch. 17.

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

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Voltaire
Source
Letter to the Author of The Three Imposters
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Time
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Voltaire. Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs [Letter to the author of The Three Impostors]. 10 Nov. 1770.