What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAbsence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld