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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
  -- La Rochefoucald...
• Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
• Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
  -- Comte DeBussy-Rabuti...
• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
  -- Hannah More...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...