The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 


Be Industrious, Fair to Your Neighbors and Pay your Taxes

If you have ploughed, gather your harvest in the field, and the God shall make it great under your hand. Fill not your mouth at your neighbors' table . . . . If a crafty man be the possessor of wealth, he steals like a crocodile from the priests.

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