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Episode 6: The Pros and Cons of Wisdom (Ancient Egypt's Wisdom Literature)

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The Proverbs of Anksha Shonki

Wisdom literature isn't meant to be read 50 pages at a time, so let's do something fun. We're going to spend a bit of time thinking about a single proverb out of the hundreds offered in the instructions of a manimope and the instructions of Anksha Shonki. I knew I wanted to zoom in on just one or two proverbs while reading the instructions of Ayn Rand. Here it is: The one who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a coil of rope. And there were moments of laughably outright contradiction.

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