Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers, but increases a conflagration.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)

François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers, but increases a conflagration.

Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers, but increases a conflagration.

Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers, but increases a conflagration.

Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers, but increases a conflagration.