La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then… — Moss Hart
- Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey
- A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."… — Karen White
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld — Francois De La Rochefoucauld