The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Absence that common cure of love.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Absence and death are the same only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
I dote on his very absence.
