Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! [ Francis Kazinczy ]
The absent party is still faulty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A madman is treated as one absent. [ Coke ]
The absent feel and fear every ill. [ Cervantes ]
Achilles absent, was Achilles still. [ Homer ]
The absent one will not be the heir. [ Proverb ]
Absent in body, but present in spirit. [ St Paul ]
The master absent, and the house dead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No god is absent where prudence dwells. [ Juvenal ]
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]
Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see. [ Drayton ]
The absent danger greater still appears
Less fears he, who is near the thing he fears. [ Daniel ]
He that fears you present will hate you absent. [ Proverb ]
Gold, when present, causes fear; when absent, grief. [ Proverb ]
He who kills a lion when absent, fears a mouse when present. [ Proverb ]
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. [ Landor ]
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together. [ Seneca ]
Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, as stars from absent suns have leave to shine. [ Young ]
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them. [ Hazlitt ]
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. [ Epictetus ]
Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones. [ Pascal ]
The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions, of all negotiations. Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life. [ Voltaire ]
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them: but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. [ Hazlitt ]
The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]