Marcus Aurelius — "When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask…"

When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask for a third thing, as fools do, namely, that you may be thought to have done a good deed or that you may be rewarded?
Marcus Aurelius — Marcus Aurelius Ancient · Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 7, Section 73

Date: c. 161-180 AD

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