We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.
In plain words
People are built to work together, like two hands or two rows of teeth.
Where these words come from
- 92% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Meditations, Book II.1, George Long translation, 1862 (Internet Classics Archive / Wikisource).
- Meditations
- 170 · Roman Empire · private philosophical journal, not written for publication
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