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• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
  -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)...
• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
  -- La Rochefoucald...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...