Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

离别会减少人的一些小欲望而增加重大的欲望,就像风吹灭蜡烛而煽旺篝火一样。

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

缺席者需要时间才能在我们的思想中呈现出他们真实的形象。死后,他们有一个更坚定的轮廓,然后停止改变。

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

不要让任何人说缺席者的坏话。