"The pleasure is only for a little moment, and it [passes] like a dream, and a man at the end thereof finds death through knowing it."
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Quoted by Pitirim Sorokin in The Crisis of Our Age, (New York : Dutton, 1941), p. 138
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Ptahhotep
, 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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