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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,—there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,—there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Meditations. x. 38.
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