#precept

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. ↗

— George Eliot

#preception #truth #life

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#does #inconvenient #moral #precept #something

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#else #everyone #give #his #honestly

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#examples #forcible #i #look #mean

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#long #patterns #precepts #short #way