#i

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ↗

— Roger de Rabutin

#extinguishes #fire #great #love #small

As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small. ↗

— Roger de Rabutin

#big #god #know #side #small

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. ↗

— Jean Racine

#him #i #only #rival #strangle

There are no secrets that time does not reveal. ↗

— Jean Racine

#reveal #secrets #time

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. ↗

— Jean Racine

#brighter #burn #everything #eyes #fire

According as the man is, so must you humour him. ↗

— Jean Racine

#him #humour #man #must #you

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#covering #even #eyes #gloomy #hell

How good is God! How sweet his yoke! ↗

— Jean Racine

#good #his #how #sweet #yoke

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ↗

— Jean Racine

#am #everything #i #nothing #possess

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. ↗

— Jean Racine

#hearts #i #inclination #know #own