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It is true that evil may gain wealth but the strength of truth is that it lasts;
a man can say: "It was the property of my father."
Instruction of Ptahhotep
To figure out why Egyptian culture lasted so long, we could talk about how it was an oasis surrounded by deserts and leave it at that.
However, something about the cyclical nature of a civilization dependent on river flooding seemed to lead to a sacred bureaucracy.
This gave a strong continuity for their class of scribes.
And all of this was steeped in Ma’at- a sense of balance and harmony associated with truth and justice.