The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 


Cherish Friends and Tenants

Plunder not the houses of tenants, neither steal the things of a friend, lest he accuse you in your hearing, which thrusts back the heart. If he know of it, he will do you an injury. Quarrelling in place of friendship is a foolish thing.

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