All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Founder of Buddhism
Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1
c. 5th century BCE
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