Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer wi… - Ptahhotep

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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.

Ptahhotep

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

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

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

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Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgement and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.

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

Be cheerful while you are alive.

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