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- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire
- If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength
- Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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