The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 

If you desire that your actions may be good, save yourself from all malice, and beware of the quality of covetousness, which is a grievous inner malady. Let it not chance that you fall thereinto. 

It sets at variance fathers-in-law and the kinsmen of the daughter-in-law; it sunders the wife and the husband. It gathers unto itself all evils; it is the girdle of all wickedness. 

But the man that is just flourishes; truth goes in his footsteps, and he makes habitations therein, not in the dwelling of covetousness.