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| | Know Yourself - path to enlightenment |
 | | The best known Delphic injunction was carved into the lintel at the Temple of Apollo: GNOTHI SEAUTON, Know Thyself. |
 | | These words may have originated in Apollo's response to a question Chilon of Sparta asked: "What is best for man?" The reply, "Know thyself," is similar to the one believed to have been given to the Lydian king, Croesus, when he was told that he must know himself if he would live most happily. |
 | | The central message is that people should understand themselves, nosce te ipsum (also temet nosce, gnothi seauton). |
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