Quotes About Relationships

We are the other of the other

Años poderosos les gustan los sicofantes, los iguales les estaban agradecidos por su amabilidad y los inferiores no deseaban otra cosa que servir a personas mas nobles y excepcionales.

L'amicizia supera in questo la parentela: nella parentela l'affetto si può eliminare, nell'amicizia no; infatti, tolto l'affetto viene meno l'amicizia stessa, la parentela rimane.

Angosciarsi profondamente per le proprie disgrazie non è proprio di chi ama l'amico ma se stesso.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you

Men exist for the sake of one another.

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.

To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.

People exist for one another. You can instruct or endure them.

keeps in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. Which

And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.

We were made, Marcus tells us over and over, not for ourselves but for others, and our nature is fundamentally unselfish. In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

Remember what Marcus Aurelius said: Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

39. The things ordained for you -- teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you -- treat them with love. With real love.

haber aprendido cómo hay que aceptar las finezas de los amigos, sin dejarse esclavizar por ellas y sin rechazarlas toscamente.

always to hope the best; and to be confident that my friends love me.

In a sense, people are our proper occupation

71. It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Tres son las relaciones. Una con el recipiente[388] que nos contiene, otra con la causa divina a partir de la cual suceden a todos todas las cosas y otra con quienes convivimos.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Busyness is no excuse for neglecting our duties to family, friends, and community.

How hast thou behaved hitherto to the gods, thy parents, brethren, children, teachers, to those who looked after thy infancy, to thy friends, kinsfolk, to thy slaves? Consider if thou hast hitherto behaved to all in such a way that this may be said of thee: Never has wronged a man in deed or word.

In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

thank the gods for giving me such a brother, who was able by his moral character to rouse me to vigilance over myself, and who, at the same time, pleased me by his respect and affection;