“Keep away from wrongdoing! When goodness is good it is truly good. For justice is for eternity: It enters the graveyard with its doer. When he is buried and earth enfolds him. His name does not pass from the earth; He is remembered because of goodness, That is the rule of god’s command.”
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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
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