Absence diminishes little passions and increases great…

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

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

— Francois Duc 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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Diane Johnson

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it ignites the great.”

— Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great

— Roger De Bussy-Rabutin

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

— Anonymous

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

— Ovid

Distance is to love like wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small and kindles the great!

— Sahleenzkie

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

— Umberto Eco

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

— Pierre Beaumarchais