L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldImagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld