Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease. - Ptahhotep

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Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease.

Ptahhotep

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About Ptahhotep

, sometimes known as Ptahhotpe or Ptah-Hotep, is the name of a vizier and philosopher. He was vizier to Djedkare Isesi.

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Ptah-Hotep • Ptah-hotep • Ptah Hotep • Ptahhotpe

All quotes from Ptahhotep Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Ptahhotep:

Confucius Pythagoras Baltasar Gracián James Burgh Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Additional quotes by Ptahhotep

If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in your home according to good custom...Make her happy while you are alive, for she is land profitable to her lord.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

Truth is great and its effectiveness endures.