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Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind, for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind, for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 214; printed byline: Marcus Aurelius; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Later sculptural depiction by Laurys Gillis, 1737

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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