“If you wish to be loved, love.”
Si vis amari, ama.
Seneca quotes this in Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium; Epistle IX and attributes it to Hecato
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Si vis amari, ama.
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Seneca the Younger 225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 378
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
Source: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”
