“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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Seneca the Younger225
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.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) Italian Dominican friar and preacher
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 378
“You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
