François De La Rochefoucauld said this quote

“ Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ”

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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld