The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 

Be Prudent with Advice

Be your heart overflowing, but refrain your mouth. Let your conduct be exact while amongst nobles, and seemly before your lord, doing that which he has commanded. Such a son shall speak unto them that hearken to him; moreover, his begetter shall be favored. Apply your heart, what time you speaks, to saying things such that the nobles who listen declare, 'How excellent is that which comes out of his mouth !'

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