Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him. No one goes away and then… — The Song of the Harper

Anonymous. "Song of the Harper." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited and introduction by William Kelly Simpson, translated by Robert T. K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin and Edward F. Wente, Jr. Yale University Press, 2003, stanza 10.

Anonymous. Tomb of King Intef, n.d., stanza 10.