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Gnothi seauton

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Definition of: gnothi seauton gnothi seauton (Greek): Know thyself. (A precept inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple at Delphi. Its authorship has been ascribed to Pythagoras, to several of the wise men of Greece, and to Phemonoe, a mythical Greek poetess. According to Juvenal, this precept descended from heaven.)

The Latin rendering of this axiom is temet nosce, which in The Matrix is inscribed above the entrance to the Oracle's kitchen.

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