out of sight,out of mind

It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.