Delphic maxim (know thyself)
Apollo
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation
The Delphic maxim is explicitly attributed to Apollo and invoked as authoritative support for the argument about self-knowledge.
For otherwise Apollo would not have laid down this first as hardest for each—to know himself.
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Philebus Plato 1 citation · 3 passages
The inscription is explicitly named ('the inscription at Delphi', 'Know thyself') and used as the authoritative standard defining the vice under discussion.
and the opposite of that, in the language of the inscription, would evidently be not to know oneself at all.
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