We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca · From Letter 13, "On Groundless Fears", to his friend Lucilius, in Richard M. Gummere's translation.

If you would be loved, love.

Seneca · Seneca passes on, as a love potion "compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation", a saying of the Stoic teacher Hecato; the Latin is "si vis amari, ama".

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I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin · An aphorism from the second collection of the Glamour editor's "Neurotic's Notebook" sayings.

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“If you would be loved, love.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”