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Great Ones 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.
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire
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- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield
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