- Absence is the mother of disillusion.
- Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
- Far from court, far from care.
- If the dog is not at home, he barks not.
- Ill comes often on the back of worse.
- It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
- It should be better to blame friends at a distance.*
- Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
- Long absence and guilt can change a friend.*
- Men are best loved furthest off.
- Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot. (Chinese)
- Misfortunes come of themselves.
- Misfortunes hasten age.
- No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
- Out of sight, out of mind.
- Present to the eye, present to the mind.
- Salt water and absence wash away love.
- Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
- Sweet are the uses of adversity. (William Shakespeare (1564-1616))
- The absent are always in the wrong.
- The absent party is always to blame.
- The absent saint gets no candle.
- The wind in one’s face makes one wise.
- Those far, far away are seldom seen for what they really are.*
- To be good tends to give absence later on.*
- To dead men and absent there are no friends left.
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