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Seneca quotes on love

2 verified English passages where Seneca’ s thought meets questions of love.

Seneca on love

Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) approaches love within Stoicism. He treats philosophy as therapy for destructive passions and urges daily preparation for mortality and loss. Systematically, the teaching links ethics, anger, mortality into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets love most directly—useful for searches such as “seneca quotes on love.”

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What did Seneca say about love?

The quotations below are the archive’s curated answer: English renderings selected for clarity and attribution, not a complete corpus.

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Related themes: Philosophy , Self , Knowledge , Freedom , Life , Wisdom .

  1. If you wish to be loved, love.
    Q0031
    Letters to Lucilius, Ep. 9.6 (quoting Hecato)
  2. All things are alien to us; time alone is ours.