Translations
If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, so as to wish to please anyone, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.George Long (1890)
If it ever happen to you to be diverted to things outside, so that you desire to please another, know that you have lost your life's plan.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)