Meditations 11.14

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.14, translated by George Long

Thinking scorn of one another, they yet fawn on one another, and eager to outdo their rivals they grovel one to another.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.14, translated by C. R. Haines