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A few days ago, MikeTheDudeHenry posted a picture of his first tattoo on Reddit's /r/tattoos discussion board, with the explanation "Cemel Dosce = latin for 'Know Thyself'":

After some web search, archigenes traced the phrase back to this scene in The Matrix:

Following up, thenatman explained:

[Tip of the hat to Nat Hillard]

Update — as various commenters explain below, "temet nosce" is perfectly cromulent Latin for "know thyself", although temet is a post-classical form. Contrary to what thenatman says in the quote above, tutemet would not be correct in this context, since it's a nominative form; tetemet would work, but is rare at best.

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