Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales I-Xvi. Quotes

“When I urge you so strongly to your studies, it is my own interest which I am consulting; I want your friendship, and it cannot fall to my lot unless you proceed, as you have begun, with the task of developing yourself. For now, although you love me, you are not yet my friend. "But," you reply, "are these words of different meaning?" Nay, more, they are totally unlike in meaning.[1] A friend loves you, of course; but one who loves you is not in every case your friend. Friendship, accordingly, is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm. Try to perfect yourself, if for no other reason, in order that you may learn how to love.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales I-XVI (1896)

“Unos tiempos se nos arrebatan, otros se nos sustraen y otros se nos escapan.”
― Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales I-Xvi.