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Artist's impression of original text inscribed in Temple of Apollo at Delphi A stained glass window in a public building in Ludwigshafen , Germany with the contracted version γνῶθι σαυτόν. The Ancient Greek aphorism "Know thyself" , Greek : γνῶθι σεαυτόν , English phonetics pronunciation: gnōthi seauton (also ... σαυτόν ... sauton with the ε contracted), is one of the Delphic maxims and was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek periegetic (travelogue) writer Pausanias (10.24.1). [ 1 ] The maxim, or aphorism, "know thyself" has had a variety of meanings attributed to it in literature. The Suda , a tenth century encyclopedia of Greek knowledge, says: "the proverb is applied to those whose boasts exceed what they are," [ 2 ] and that "know thyself" is a warning to pay no attention to the opinion of the multitude. [ 3 ]
