Humming insistence Of Kindness

Marcus Aurelius repeatedly discusses kindness and the importance of extending it to everyone equally at all times in his timeless Meditations (public library), notes on the life he had written largely to himself while learning how to live more virtuously in an uncertain world that blindsides us with both its beauty and its brutality.

Even at their cruelest, which is their most irrational, human beings are endowed with reason and dignity they can retain.