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Example Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
- Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
- It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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