Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
- Homer, The Iliad
For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .
- I Corinthians (ch. V, v. 3)
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Charles Lamb, Amicus Redivivus
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
Sextus Propertius, Elegioe
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin
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