SENECA ON LOVE

Question 1

If you want to be loved

Answer 1

Then love

Question 2

It is not the utility of it which draws the wise man to friendship

Answer 2

But a natural instinct

Question 3

No doubt the passions of lovers has something similar to friendship

Answer 3

You might say this is a maddened friendship

Question 4

You must live for another

Answer 4

If you want to live for yourself

Question 5

To have someone I can die for, to have someone I can follow into exile,

Answer 5

For whose death I might exchange my own and pay the price instead

Question 6

For what could be more pleasant then to be so dear to a wife that because of this

Answer 6

You become dearer to yourself

Question 7

No one loves those

Answer 7

Whom he fears

Question 8

So too it cannot but be that names of those whom we have loved and lost come back to us with a sort of string ;

Answer 8

But there is a pleasure even I this sting

Question 9

An easily won love hurts us as much as

Answer 9

One which is difficult to win

Question 10

For one must indulge genuine emotions ;

Answer 10

Sometimes even in spite of weighty reasons

Question 11

Friendship, accordingly is always helpful

Answer 11

But love sometimes even does harm

Question 12

Anna Motto

Answer 12

True love is in many ways analogous to an ideal friendship

Question 13

Liz Gloyn

Answer 13

Seneca believes it is possible to love another human being without giving into irrationality

Question 14

David Konstan

Answer 14

Emotion for Seneca is a complex thing

Question 15

Anna Motto

Answer 15

Seneca maintains that this emotion (love) is honourable, that it should be indulged