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Seneca the Elder

Latin quotations by Lucius (or Marcus) Annaeus Seneca (c. 54 BC – c. 37 AD), more commonly known as Seneca the Elder or as Seneca the Rhetorician. He was a Roman authority on the history and techniques of oratory.

Annaeus Seneca was the father of Seneca the Younger and grandfather of Lucan.

If You Wish to Be Loved, Love

Si vis amari, ama (Annaeus Seneca, a.k.a. Seneca the Elder, Epistularum Moralium Ad Lucilium)
If you wish to be loved, love.