From Marcus Aurelius 12.4

“4. Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else. At any rate, if a God or some wise teacher should come to a man and charge him to admit no thought or design into his mind that he could not utter aloud as soon as conceived, he could not endure this ordinance for a single day. So it is clear that we pay more deference to the opinion our neighbours will have of us than to our own.”

Excerpt From: Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius. “Meditations.”

• Book # 12.4

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own….”

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