276. — Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.

Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

"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.

Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 OBSERVANCE

L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies, et allume le feu.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh.

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will–o'–the–wisp, dancing onward to fairylands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.