Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy (13 April 1618 – 9 April 1693), commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.[1] (wikipedia)
As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.