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Great Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
- Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire
- Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.
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