Know thyself Know thyself The Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" (Greek: , transliterated: '; also ' 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 writer Pausanias (10.24.1). The phrase was later expounded upon by the philosopher Socrates who taught that: In Latin the phrase, "know thyself," is given as "nosce te ipsum" or "temet nosce". The maxim, or aphorism, "know thyself" has had a variety of meanings attributed to it in literature. According to a proposal by De Lubicz and Lamy (1956),
Lorem ipsum the "lorem ipsum" text may be the 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition of the "De Finibus", where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with ""Neque porro quisquam est qui do-"" and continues on page 36 with ""lorem ipsum ..."", suggesting that the galley type of that page was mixed up to make the dummy text seen today. The original version appears in the 1913 Loeb Classical Library Edition of the "De Finibus," Book 1, sections 32–33. The relevant section of Cicero as printed in the source is reproduced below with the example