If you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself. — Horace
If you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself.
In the original Latin
Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.
Ars Poetica · 19 BC
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Horace. "Ars Poetica." Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, translated by H. R. Fairclough. Harvard University Press, 1929, l. 102.
Original citation
Horace. Ars Poetica [The Art of Poetry]. c. 19 BC, l. 102.
