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

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.

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

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great