Absence Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire....

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Diane Johnson

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence does for love what the wind does for a flame: it extinguishes the weak, and feeds the strong.

— Anonymous

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great

— Anonymous

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

— Roger De Bussy-Rabutin

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation…

— John Keats

Absence makes the Heart grows fonder

— Richie