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.

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.