"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive." ― Lord Byron Topic(s): History Tags: selfish More From Lord Byron "Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep." "Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." "Absence – that common cure of love." More In History "I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes."― Zoe Saldana "You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch."― George M. Humphrey "In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story."― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar