The sage-Any, Dynasty 18 (circa 1539-1295/1292 B.C.E.), counseled prospective grooms:

Take a wife while you're young,
That she might make a son for you;
She should bear for you while you're youthful,
It is proper to make people.
Happy the man whose people are many,
He is saluted on account of his progeny.

Source: "The Instructions of Any," translated by Miriam Lichtheim, in Ancient Egyptian Literature, edited by Lichtheim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), p. 136.