8 Stoic Quotes on Relationships

  • "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.39

  • "Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach." — Seneca, Moral Letters 7.8

  • "If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother." — Epictetus, Enchiridion 43

  • "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.59

  • "There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with." — Seneca, Moral Letters 6.4

  • "We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole." — Seneca, Moral Letters 95.52

  • "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.4

  • "Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal." — Seneca, Moral Letters 3.3