"Guinea", I figure I can type it even thought it's like n-word bad in Italian from what I understand. They kept using it in the godfather book, I really thought it was just a simple term of affection between bros.

Nah, it was the Buddha who said "You must lash out with every limb, like the octopus who plays the drums. And kill your customers"

I think it means something more along the lines of "examine your latent biases and underlying assumptions, know the difference between perception and reality" but "go fuck yourself" works too, I guess...

That doesn't change anything. Your entire point is that what we translate it to doesn't change the meaning. So how does that matter?

My point isn't that "Know Thyself" is the correct way. I was using that more or less interchangeably, since they're synonymous. My point was that it comes from the Greek, not from Sun Tzu.

And unless you can rationalize why the original inscription being in Greek somehow changes that, I don't see your point.

Any time twin