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Marcus Aurelius · Private notes written on campaign and never meant for publication; Gregory Hays's 2002 translation.
Marcus Aurelius · Private notes written on campaign and never meant for publication; Gregory Hays's 2002 translation.
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Marcus Aurelius · Written in Greek in his private notebook while on campaign; the Long translation of 1862 is the wording everyone knows.
Marcus Aurelius · Written in his private notebook while on campaign; George Long's translation is the source of the popular paraphrase "the happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts".
Marcus Aurelius · Written in Greek as a private note to himself; this is the Gregory Hays translation, the form everyone now shares.
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Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.
Mahatma Gandhi · Written in his weekly Young India in 1920, in a passage on love as the force we see between parent and child and must learn to use toward all that lives.
Eleanor Roosevelt · From the chapter "Learning to Be Useful" in her last book, written at 76.
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