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Anonymous scribe Quotes
9 sourced quotes from Anonymous scribe across Maat.
“I have not lied. I have not stolen. I have not caused another to weep. I have not pried into matters. I have not slandered. I have not been angry without cause. I have not eaten my heart with grudges.”
“Your heart is weighed on the scale against the feather of Maat. May it be found as light.”
“I am one whose heart is light. I have done what is loved by gods and men.”
“Set Maat in your heart and your tongue will speak it. The two are not different.”
“I have given bread to the hungry and water to the thirsty. I have given clothes to the naked and a ferryboat to the boatless.”
“The ka of a man (his vital essence) lasts only as long as Maat has shaped him.”
“I have offered Maat to Ra. I have spoken Maat in the place of judgment. Maat ascends through me to the gods.”
“She is the daughter of Ra. She rides in the solar boat. The world is held together because she is at the heart of it.”
“Anubis weighs the heart. Thoth records the result. Ammit waits. The deceased recites the 42 Confessions. The room is silent. The feather does not move. It is the heart that must change.”