Influence
H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man has as its basis a retelling of the tale of The Ring of Gyges.
There is a reference to the Ring of Gyges in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
One comic story of The Spectre features a giant Ring of Gyges.
The character of Katherine Clifton also shares this story of Gyges and Candaules in the movie "The English Patient."
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“The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.”
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“Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)