Know thyself the opinion of the multitude. One work by the Medieval philosopher Peter Abelard is entitled "Scito te ipsum" (“know yourself”) or "Ethica". From 1539 onwards the phrase "nosce te ipsum" and its Latin variants were often used in the anonymous texts written for anatomical fugitive sheets printed in Venice as well as for later anatomical atlases printed throughout Europe. The 1530s fugitive sheets are the first instances in which the phrase was applied to knowledge of the human body attained through dissection. In 1651 Thomas Hobbes used the term "nosce teipsum" which he translated as 'read thyself' in his famous
Bellum se ipsum alet to previous shortfalls of the Soviet planned economy and the devastations during the conquest. Thus, "Reichsmarschall" Hermann Göring implemented restrictions on the local population to prevent the Altreich and the army from falling short of food supplies. Aware of the consequences of these measures, Göring in September 1941 foretold "the largest starvation since the Thirty Years' War" in the occupied areas. In 1942, he explicitly described the Nazi strategy in these territories as "bellum se ipsum alet". Bellum se ipsum alet The Latin phrase bellum se ipsum alet () or bellum se ipsum alit (, ), and its German rendering