Maxim no .1.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Contexto: Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. For knowledge has no limits, and none has yet achieved perfection in it. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.
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Ptá-Hotep: Frases em inglês
“To resist him that is set in authority is evil.”
Maxim no. 31.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Introduction.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
“Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease.”
Maxim no. 19.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
“Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper.”
Maxim no. 23.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Maxim no. 25.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Maxim no. 11.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)