Hands Quote by Seneca the Younger

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not…

— Seneca the Younger

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

— John Templeton

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

— George Herbert

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

— Marcel Proust

“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual factors have…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

— Russell M. Nelson

The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Unless we can realign our belief system about how we will achieve happy, satisfying lives, we are in grave danger of defaulting to the…

— Tony Crabbe

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and…

— George Santayana

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in…

— Samuel Richardson

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

— John Dryden