Authenticated quotes from the 1070s BC

Do not set your heart on wealth…
Do not strain to seek increase,
What you have, let it suffice you.
If riches come by theft,
They will not stay the night with you….
They made themselves wings like geese,
And flew away to the sky.

Amenemope

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Amenemope. The Instruction of Amenemope. 11 century BC.

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Amenemope. "The Instruction of Amenemope." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited by William Kelly Simpson, translated by Robert T. K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin, and Edward F. Wente, Jr. Yale University Press, 2003.

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Do not set your heart on wealth… Do not strain to seek increase, What you have, let it suffice you. If riches come by theft, They will not stay the night with you…. They made themselves wings like geese, And flew away to the sky.