Praying for Everybody

Marcus Aurelius on praying for everyone's welfare, not just one's own, in Meditations, Book V, Section VII: "The form of the Athenians' prayer did run thus: 'O rain, rain, good Jupiter, upon all the grounds and fields that belong to the Athenians.' Either we should not pray at all, or thus absolutely and freely; and not every one for himself in particular alone."