Ancient Egypt

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There is no god, who has become a star, without a companion.

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— Ancient Egyptian

Source: The Pyramid Texts of Unas - ca. 2400 BCE

The doors of the horizon open themselves, its bolts slide.

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— Ancient Egyptian

Source: The Pyramid Texts of Unas - ca. 2400 BCE

Your bread of eternity is yours,
O Atum together with the Double Lion, who have created themselves,
their double divinity for themselves.
This is Shu with Tefnut, the two who made the gods, begat the gods, established the gods.

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— Ancient Egyptian

Source: The Pyramid Texts of Unas - ca. 2400 BCE

The counsels of former days; it is profitable for him who hears them, it is a loss to him who shall transgress them.

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— Ptahhotep

Source: The Maxims of Ptahhotep - ca. 2350 BCE

Speak not to the great man more than he requires, for one knows not what may be displeasing to him. Speak when he invites thee and thy worth will be pleasing.

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— Ptahhotep

Source: The Maxims of Ptahhotep - ca. 2350 BCE

He who agitates himself all the day long has not a good moment; and he who amuses himself all the day long keeps not his fortune.

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— Ptahhotep

Source: The Maxims of Ptahhotep - ca. 2350 BCE

The field labourer complains eternally his voice rises higher than the birds, with his fingers turned into sores, from carrying overloads of produce. He is too exhausted to report for marsh work, and has to exist in rags.

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— Kheti

Source: The Satire of the Trades - ca. 2050 BCE

A day in the school chamber is more useful for you than an eternity of toil in the mountains.

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— Kheti

Source: The Satire of the Trades - ca. 2050 BCE