The internet hole has brought me to this page of ancient Sumerian proverbs: etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.
Will comment the dopest ones.
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"You should not cut the throat of that which has already had its throat cut."
"What has submitted will exhibit resistance."
"What has been destroyed belongs to a god. No one is able to take it away."
"My things changed things."
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omg "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband's embrace."
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"What you are doing is a small accomplishment. That man is not doing a man's work."
Dude, burn.
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"Although the chickpea-flour of the home-born slaves …… is mixed with honey and ghee, there is no end to their lamentations"
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Except for the throat-cutting part. Sounds like they were enthusiastically re-cutting, and needed to be told to mellow out.