Quotation for the Day on Cooperation

Dr Abe V Rotor

"We are made for cooperation - like feet, like hands... to act against one another is, then, contrary to nature."

- Marcus Aurelius

True to his philosophy, Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) was the first emperor to appoint a co-ruler when the empire became too huge to administer from a single capital. He navigated Rome masterfully through severe difficulties. The tragedy is that his philosophy – which is about self-restraint, duty, and respect for others – was so abjectly abandoned by the imperial line he anointed on his death. Historian Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, starts by describing Marcus Aurelius as the last of the good emperors.

Acknowledgement: Internet photo; Reference: Military History, Thinkers at War