Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones…

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

— Anonymous

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”

— Francois De La Rochefoucault

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Misery is to happiness as cold is to heat- it rushes through the cracks and blows out the candle.”

— John I. Carswell

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.”

— Diane Johnson

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

— Anonymous

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

Any woman's death diminishes me.

— Adrienne Rich

The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

— Jacob Weisberg

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais