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“To resist him that is set in authority is evil.”

Maxim no. 31.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)

“Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. For knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it.”

Ptahhotep

Maxim no .1.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Context: Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. For knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

“Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgement and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.”

Ptahhotep

Introduction.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)

“Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease.”

Ptahhotep

Maxim no. 19.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)

“If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in your home according to good custom…Make her happy while you are alive, for she is land profitable to her lord.”

Ptahhotep

Maxim no. 21.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BC)

“Be cheerful while you are alive.”

Ptahhotep

Maxim no. 34.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)