Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Quotes

France, Memoirist
April 13, 1618 – April, 9, 1693.

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.

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

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
- Like
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
- Love
- Fire
- Wind
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
- God
- Ones