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.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

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