WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/74912/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Marcus Aurelius</b></a></p><blockquote>We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work against each other is contrary to nature; and resentment and rejection count as working against someone.<br> <br>[γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν: ἀντιπρακτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.]</blockquote><p><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν],</i> Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/74912/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7491…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=MarcusAurelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcusAurelius</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=anger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anger</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=assistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assistance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooperation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>help</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=meaningoflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meaningoflife</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mutuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutuality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=opposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opposition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=purpose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purpose</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rejection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rejection</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=resentment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resentment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=together" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>together</span></a></p>