The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni
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The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'gemni are among the oldest books in the world, ancient Egyptian wisdom texts of moral instruction dating to the Old Kingdom, here in the English translation by Battiscombe Gunn (1906). They gather maxims on right conduct, dignity, and the good life from more than four thousand years ago. The work is a foundational text of world literature.
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