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View Plans"L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grands, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.
"Absence diminishes the lesser passions and increases the great ones, just as the wind extinguishes candles but fans a great fire.
About Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15 1613 – March 17 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.
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Additional quotes by Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld
We should only be astonished at still being able to be astonished.
We are never as unhappy as we think, nor as happy has we had hoped
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.