A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Absence weakens ordinary passions, but inflames great ones, as the wind extinguishes a candle, but fans a fire.
[L’absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶276 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶276 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)] | WIST Quotations
Absence weakens ordinary passions, but inflames great ones, as the wind extinguishes a candle, but fans a fire. [L’absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.WIST Quotations
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