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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant read more
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies
eorum non videbantur.]
Absence, that common cure of love.
Absence, that common cure of love.
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
[Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
[Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Is not absence death to those who love?
Is not absence death to those who love?
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.