Be great if you can, but be good as well as great.

Take no man's life because you have the strength and hate him; wrong no woman because she is defenceless or can be bought.

Remember that the beggar child playing in the sand may have a destiny more high than yours when all the earthly count is reckoned.

Remember that you share the air you breathe with the cattle and the worm.

Go your road rejoicing in your beauty and your youth and the good gifts that are given you, but know, Rames, that at the end of it I, who wait in the shadow of Osiris, I your father, shall ask an account thereof, and that beyond me stand the gods of Justice to test the web that you have woven.