He was quite my superior in swift apprehension--in keen perception--but I had greater caution, and deeper purpose.

Often he laughed at my laborious efforts, but his brilliant powers appeared to me a vain delusion.

I became one of the initiated, he ruled the state in partnership with his father, and, when Seti died, by himself.

We both grew older, but the foundation of our characters remained the same.

He rushed to splendid victories, overthrew nations, and raised the glory of the Egyptian name to a giddy height, though stained with the blood of his people; I passed my life in industry and labor, in teaching the young, and in guarding the laws which regulate the intercourse of men and bind the people to the Divinity.