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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius

Poem

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

In the original Latin

Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.

Sextus Propertius
24 BC
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Nature of loveLove
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Poem
Time
24 BCClassical antiquity
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Sextus Propertius
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Current citation
Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.
Original citation
Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

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