"L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand."

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Histoire amoureuse des Gaules (1665); "Maximes d’Amour" in Amours des Dames (Cologne, 1717), p. 219 — as reported by King (1904), no. 1224