The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Gulliver's Travels
Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting (often misattributed to Marcus Aurelius, but present in Swift's work)
1706
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