An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

The rule “know yourself” is credited to Thales. Others said it belonged to Phemonoe, an early priestess at Delphi, and that Chilo of Sparta took it for his own. It was carved at Delphi, and nobody knows who said it first.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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