Latin Quotes about Love

In this hub, I collected all my favorite Latin quotes about love from such authors as Ovid, Catullus, Seneca, Terence, etc.

Most of them are ancient Roman authors, but - surprisingly or not, - they had quite similar conceptions of love as we do in modern times.

Even to them, love appeared to be blind, insane, sometimes even a disease or the ruiner of a person's life.

There is wisdom as well as fun and joy in these old Latin quotes on love. Everyone may find his or her favorite among them.

My favorite Latin Quote about Love

"It is good to be moderately sane in love, but it is not good to be insanely in love."
                                                                                     (Plautus)

1. amans iratus multa mentitur
   
   an angry lover tells himself many lies
   (Publilius Syrus)
   
   
2. amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est
   
   the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love
   (Terence)
   
   
3. amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
   
   even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time
   (Publilius Syrus and Laberius)
   
   
4. amicitia semper prodest, amor et nocet
   
   friendship always benefits, love sometimes injures
   (Seneca and Publilius Syrus)
   
   
5. amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur
   
   we choose to love, we do not chose to cease loving
   (Publilius Syrus)
   
   
6. amor gignit amorem
   
   love begets love
   
   
7. amoris vulnus idem sanat qui facit
   
   love’s wounds are cured by love itself
   (Publilius Syrus)
   
   
8. audax ad omnia fœmina, quæ vel amat vel odit
   
   a woman, when she either loves or hates, will dare anything
   
   
9. bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est
   
   it is good to be moderately sane in love, but it is not good to be insanely in love
   (Plautus)
   
   
10. cogas amantem irasci, amare si velis
    
    you must make a lover angry if you wish him to love
    (Publilius Syrus)
    
    
11. expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis
    
    I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love
    (Propertius)
    
    
12. facilius in amore finem impetres quam modum
    
    love is more easily quenched than moderated
    (Seneca the Elder)
    
    
13. homo totiens moritur quotiens amittit suos
    
    a man dies as often as his loved ones die
    (Publilius Syrus)
    
    
14. intret amicitiæ nomine tectus amor
    
    love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name
    (Ovid)
    
    
15. magis gauderes quod habueras, quam mœreres quod amiseras
    
    better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all
    (Seneca)
    
    
16. multi the oderint, si teipsum ames
    
    many will hate you if you love yourself
    
    
17. odit verus amor, nec patitur, moras
    
    true love hates, and does not suffer, delay
    (Seneca)
    
    
18. qui finem quæris amoris, cedet amor rebus; res age tutus eris
    
    you who seek an end of love, love will yield to business; be busy, and you will be safe
    (Ovid)
    
    
19. qui in amore præcipitavit pejus perit, quam si saxo saliat
    
    he who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock
    (Plautus)
    
    
20. sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua
    
    but what a woman says to her lover it is best to write in the wind and in the swiftly flowing water
    (Catullus)

For more amazing love quotes, read my hub, Amazing Quotes about Love.

For more Latin Quotes see my hub, Latin Quotes about Life.