Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Bussy-Rabutin
French Memoirist, cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné
"When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough."
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
"We must like what we have when we don't have what we like."
" As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small."