Presence-Absence

Those who are absent are always wrong. (English proverb)

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. (Kahlil Gibran)

Absence lessens ordinary passions and augments great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and makes a fire blaze. (La Rochefoucauld)

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. (Tacitus)