Wisdom literature

thumb|upright=1.2|Ecclesiastes 3 in the Leningrad Codex

book of the Bible

Biblical figure, son of Jacob and Rachel and governor of Egypt during the late Hyksos dynasty

Persian poet

Jewish wisdom text from the early 2nd century BCE, part of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox biblican canons

Deuterocanonical sapiential book of the Bible

deuterocanonical, apocryphal story about Tobit & Anna and their son Tobias and his adventures with Raphael

thumb|"The Stranger at the Door" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood '''''' ("Words of Hávi [the High One]" in Old Norse) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. A scholarly estimate of 's age dates the poem to between 900 and 1000 A.D. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. It is considered an important source of Old Norse philosophy.

'''Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi (), more commonly known as Sanai''', was a poet in the Ghaznavid Empire, who wrote in Persian. He was born in 1080 and died in 1150.

genre of literature common in the ancient Near East

educational literary genre

stories attributed to early Christian hermits and monks

thumb|A page from ' by An exemplum (Latin for "example", exempla', exempli gratia = "for example", abbr.: e.g.'') is a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point. The word is also used to express an action performed by another and used as an example or model.

The Hermetica are texts attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. These texts may vary widely in content and purpose, but by modern convention are usually subdivided into two main categories, the "technical" and "religio-philosophical" Hermetica.

12th-century Arab-Sicilian philosopher and politician

karate technique

meaningful opinions put into verse to aid the memory

book of scripture ascribed to John the Baptist

Latin work

Nasîhatnâme (, Naṣīḥat-nāme) were a type of guidance letter for Ottoman sultans, similar to mirrors for princes. They draw on a variety of historical and religious sources, and were influenced by the governance of previous empires such as the Seljuk Turks or the Mongols, as well as by early Muslim history and by contemporary events.

parthian epic poem

collections of stories or anecdotes on various aspects of Islam

ancient Meitei folktale about the old couple planting taro plants following the suggestion of the monkeys

any collection of desert father stories