"The main thing we were made for..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
The main thing we were made for is to work with others.
More by Marcus Aurelius
“To expect an impossibility is madness.”
“Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.”
“In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.”
More on Cooperation
“The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.”
“Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.”
“Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.”
More on Purpose
“It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.”
“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!”