What we know of its author is vague, is supposed to Ptahhotep was vizier of King Asosi, and already elderly dedicates his life to collect a series of maxims or rules of educational value. In his texts complains about the inconvenience of the age, and ask permission from the King to educate a student who instructs having as purpose to educate the ignorant to ensure knowledge and acquire the perfect speech rules. See below some extracts of maxims of Ptahhotep written approximately in 2,500 BC and who retain all their validity and timeliness, because they transcend time and place in which were written to correspond to universal and eternal principles: maximum 25, where instructs on what the real is power that it is not imposed by force, but by the values of who exercises it: If you’re powerful, you should make you respect for knowledge, for the kindness of oratory, orders considered to be but not by other circumstances. And, in another translation: If you’re powerful acts so that you’re respected depending on your knowledge, your experience and the serenity of your language. Don’t give orders rather than when it is necessary. Also in the same maxima are references to self-control, self-control and the serenity in the journal live: who raises, enters into evil. Don’t be arrogant not to be humiliated.
No streets, but beware of scuffling. When you respond to who speaks with cholera, depart your face, control you.One who is busy throughout the day, can not spend a happy time. Who is frivolous all day, can not found a House. In the maximum 2, 3 and 4, Ptahhotep instructs on the reaction right before the ira depending on who comes: maximum No. 2 (Of the art of debating with a superior) If you find an aficionados at its time of action, someone who has authority, most important someone who you, fold your hands, tilts back and not desates your heart against him as not are you equal.