Absence weakness lukewarm feelings but intensified great ones, as wind snuffs out candles but feeds fire.[L’absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
Source:The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (ed. Random House, 1959), (tr. Kronenberger), Maxim 276, Page 86
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