Self-knowledge
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self-examination · Know thyself · Knowing thyself · know himself · know myself · know yourself · self-knowledge · without knowledge
in the texts
Memorabilia
The Socratic injunction to know and examine oneself, invoked directly in urging Charmides toward civic action and again in the later discussion of madness as self-delusion.
but not to know yourself, and to assume and think that you know what you do not, he put next to Madness.
My good man, don’t be ignorant of yourself:
Is it not clear too that through self-knowledge men come to much good, and through self-deception to much harm?
Cyropaedia
The Delphic requirement that Croesus know himself, reinterpreted as recognizing his political and martial limits.
But do you think Apollo’s declaration still holds true, that if I know myself I shall be happy?
And lately again, spoiled by the wealth I had and by those who were begging me to become their leader, by the gifts they gave me and by the people who flattered me, saying that if I would consent to take command they would all obey me and I should be the greatest of men—puffed up by such words, when all the princes round about chose me to be their leader in the war, I accepted the command, deeming …
For when I recognized that I was not your match in battle, with his help I got off in safety, both I and my men.