So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

Cada cual busca en sus creencias un consuelo a las contrariedades y reveses de la vida.

I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.

For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in all mankind.

He who once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Nile again.

My spirit welled up in its joy because I asked myself “why?” The dread key to all true knowledge is “why?

Puheesi on kuin kärpäsen surinaa korvissani.