It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Marcus AureliusMeditations, 12.4
- stoicism
- self-knowledge
- opinion
- vanity
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. If a god appeared to us or a wise human being, even and prohibited us from concealing our thoughts or imagining anything without immediately shouting it out, we wouldn’t make it through a single day. That’s how much we value other people’s opinions instead of our own.