The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep
Success is the Gift of the Gods
If you be great, after being of no account, and have gotten riches after squalor, being foremost in these in the city, and have knowledge concerning useful matters, so that promotion is come unto you; then swathe not your heart in your hoard, for you are become the steward of the endowments of the God. You are not the last; another shall be your equal, and to him shall come the like [fortune and station].
