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
Lorem ipsum the "lorem ipsum" text may be the 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition of the "De Finibus", where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with ""Neque porro quisquam est qui do-"" and continues on page 36 with ""lorem ipsum ..."", suggesting that the galley type of that page was mixed up to make the dummy text seen today. The original version appears in the 1913 Loeb Classical Library Edition of the "De Finibus," Book 1, sections 32–33. The relevant section of Cicero as printed in the source is reproduced below with the example