“A loving heart maintains a family; a hateful heart destroys a family.”
Instructions of Shuruppak Quotes
Ancient Sumerian wisdom text from the third millennium BCE, among the oldest surviving works of advice literature.
“A thief is a lion, but after he has been caught, he will be a slave.”
“The eyes of the slanderer always move around as shiftily as a spindle.”
“To speak arrogantly is like an abscess: a herb that makes the stomach sick.”
“The elder brother is indeed like a father; the elder sister is indeed like a mother.”
“You should not speak arrogantly to your mother; that causes hatred for you.”
