"He who knows himself best esteems himself least."

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Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.400

Henry George Bohn

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”
“I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.”

Source : "Profile: Luis von Ahn". Interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.
“What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.”
“I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.”
“That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.”
“I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.”
“To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.”
“I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!" He demanded."I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I rise with the moon. I am a mere immortal soul that feasts on your fears and flesh.""Why won't you answer my question correctly!”

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