How to Deal with Difficult People: Marcus Aurelius Stoic​.#Stoicism #MarcusAurelius #Philosophy

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Marcus [music] Aurelius said, "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself, the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, [music] jealous, and surly.

[00:00:10]They're like this because they can't tell good from evil, but I have seen the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, [music] and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own. Not of the same [music] blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them [music] can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness, nor can I feel angry at my relative or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, [music] and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each [music] other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him, these are unnatural."