"Love in its essence is spiritual fire " — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict

Source: Self-Culture (1838)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

Love is the life out of which are fashioned all the natural feelings, every emotion of man.

Source: The Hope of the Gospel (1871)

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Source: What I Believe (1925)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote