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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.