Authenticated quotes from the year 2600 BC

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.
No one goes away and then comes back.

The Song of the Harper

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Original Citation

Anonymous. Tomb of King Intef, n.d., stanza 10.

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Current Citation

Anonymous. "Song of the Harper." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited and introduction 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, stanza 10.

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Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him. No one goes away and then comes back.