"Absence lessens moderate passions and intensifies great ones, as the wind blows out a candle but fans up a fire"
— La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de (1613-1680)
Date
1665
Metaphor
"Absence lessens moderate passions and intensifies great ones, as the wind blows out a candle but fans up a fire"
Metaphor in Context
276. Absence lessens moderate passions and intensifies great ones, as the wind blows out a candle but fans up a fire.
[L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu]
[L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu]
Categories
Provenance
Reading. But see also discussion by Susan Carlile and Andrew Brown on PSU C18 Listserv.
Citation
La Rochefoucauld. Maxims. Trans Leonard Tancock (London: Penguin, 1959).
Date of Entry
03/05/2006
