As to deserving, know that the gift of heaven is free; this gift of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope to ‘deserve’ it.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.
• An answer if profitable in proportion to the intensity of the quest.
• There grows no wheat where there is no grain.
• What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.
• The plant reveals what is in the seed.
• Seek peacefully, you will find.
• The way of knowledge is narrow.
• Every man must act in the rhythm of his time… such is wisdom.
• If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.
• It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.
• You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of Maat.
• In every vital activity it is the path that matters.
• Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.
• Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.
• Always watch and follow nature.
• Man, know yourself and you shalt know the gods.
• Judge by cause, not by effect.
• The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.
• Social good is what brings peace to family and society.
• We mustn’t confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.
• Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
• People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.
• The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.
• For knowledge, you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it.
• Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.
• Your body is the temple of knowledge.
• If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.