Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
In the original French
Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons.
Reflections · 1678
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.