Know thyself know what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions." In 1734 Alexander Pope wrote a poem entitled "An Essay on Man, Epistle II", which begins "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man." In 1735 Carl Linnaeus published the first edition of "Systema Naturae" in which he described humans ("Homo") with the simple phrase ""Nosce te ipsum"". In 1750 Benjamin Franklin, in his "Poor Richard's Almanack", observed the great difficulty of knowing one's self, with: "There are three Things extremely hard, Steel, a Diamond, and to know
Te lucis ante terminum Balfour Gardiner composed the anthem "Evening Hymn" on both the Latin text and an English translation, for mixed choir and organ. Te lucis ante terminum Te lucis ante terminum (English: "To Thee before the close of day") is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the "Roman Breviary". The authorship of Ambrose of Milan, for which Pimont contends, is not admitted by the Benedictine editors or by Luigi Biraghi. The hymn is found in a hymnary in Irish script (described by Clemens Blume in his "Cursus", etc.) of the eighth or early ninth