10 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
  • “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

    — Epictetus
  • “There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.”

    — Seneca
  • “Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”

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

    — Epictetus
  • “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

    — Seneca
  • “But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.”

    — Seneca
  • “Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”

    — Seneca
  • “I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.”

    — Seneca
  • “Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

    — Epictetus