Seneca on Love and Friendship
Natural promptings, and not his own selfish needs.
“A want implies a necessity, and nothing is necessary to the wise man.” — Seneca. You can only seek friendship from a place of spiritual abundance. From a relaxed state of the soul. From being authentic, weird, yourself. Your best self. Not desperation.
“For what purpose, then, do I make a man my friend? In order to have someone for whom I may die, whom I may follow into exile, against whose death I may stake my own life, and pay the pledge, too.” — Seneca
“The wise man, I say, self-sufficient though he be, nevertheless desires friends if only for the purpose of practising friendship, in order that his noble qualities may not lie dormant.” — Seneca
“If you ask how one can make oneself a friend quickly, I will tell you, provided we are agreed that I may pay my debt at once and square the account, so far as this letter is concerned. Hecato, says: "I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation: 'If you would be loved, lo…
