Zíde z očí, zíde z mysle.
“Out of sight, out of mind.”
We tend to forget about things or people we no longer see regularly.
— Traditional Slovakia Wisdom, Slovakia
Source: Traditional Slovakia proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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