Patience in Achievement
Great accomplishments require time and persistent effort. Impatience leads to errors and incomplete results, while patience brings lasting success.
Great accomplishments require time and persistent effort. Impatience leads to errors and incomplete results, while patience brings lasting success.
Do not shorten the time of following the heart. Wasting time is an abomination to the spirit.
Instructions of Ptahhotep
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- What ancient Egypt says about time
Ptahhotep's maxim is against hurry. Work that is rushed comes out wrong, and time spent properly is not time wasted.
- What ancient Egypt says about growing old
Ptahhotep pairs the long view with a strange urgency: do not shorten the time of following the heart, because wasted time is an abomination. Patience here is not drift — it is refusing haste and idleness at once.