On this site there is at the moment
the text of the Dhammapada in
Max Müller's English
translation, in which I read it first, before I was 20, and ever
since knew Dhammapada 1.1, which is inspiring though the "All"
seemed and seems mistaken to me:
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.
I disagree with "All" on more or
less the same grounds as I disagree with concluding from the
premiss that all we see is the surfaces of things that there are
no insides of things. See Natural Realism.
As to the text of the Dhammapada
(and other texts from the various Buddhist traditions): it should be remarked
that what has been handed down as the Buddha's teaching was
written down much later than it was taught: What you get are -
probably, mostly - not his (exact, precise) own words, but what has been made of
these by his followers.
(*) I do not know
whether any of the images and statues of Buddha are in any way a
likeness, and most were made long after his death, and often
outside India. I chose this
one - also on Wikipedia: click the image - because many of the more traditional representations seem a
bit saccharine to me.
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