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The Ancient Sage Who Concocted The Maxim, "Know Thyself" Might Have Added, "Don't Tell Anyone!
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The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, "Know Thyself" might have
added, "Don't Tell Anyone!"
-- H. F. Henrichs
Related:
Know thyself. -- Thale
There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors.
Look at how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit, "I have my own operating system and file storage device....
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap. xlii...
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiatio
and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse....
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ac
and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor.
It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism....
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
-- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English poet, "Self Dependence...
Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Man know thyself! All writing centers there. -- Young