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Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée.
François De La Rochefoucauld
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L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.

françois de la rochefoucauld

— Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Variant translation: Absence weakens the minor passions and adds to the effects of great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Maxim 276.

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On a fait une vertu de la modération pour borner l’ambition des grands hommes, et pour consoler les gens médiocres de leur peu de fortune, et de leur peu de mérite.

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— Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Maxim 308.

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L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.


— Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, (1665–1678), Maxim 276.

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