“If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.”

—  Horace , Ars Poetica

Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 102

Original

Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.

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