Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

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Biography

Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones."

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"We must like what we have when we don't have what we like."

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin