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Ptahhotep
12 quotes
“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 (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is great and its effectiveness endures.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than is ordered; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit... When riches are gained, follow desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pleasure is only for a little moment, and it [passes] like a dream, and a man at the end thereof finds death through knowing it.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maxim no. 18. Translated by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Teaching Of Amenem Apt Son Of Kanekht (London : Martin Hopkinson and Company Ltd, 1924), p. 58
“Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To resist him that is set in authority is evil.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be cheerful while you are alive.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.”
Ptahhotep (2451–2401 BC) said by 2401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by J. H. Breasted, The Dawn of Conscience (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933) p. 131