The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 


Live Joyfully and Cause No Strife

Let your face be bright what time you lives. That which goes into the storehouse must come out therefrom ; and bread is to be shared. 

He that is grasping in entertainment shall himself have an empty belly; he that causes strife comes himself to sorrow. Take not such an one for your companion. 

It is a man's kindly acts that are remembered of him in the years after his life.

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