Example Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Example Long Path
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. — Horace Copy Share Image
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Pretention is just an intention of mind and not the ignorance of heart to believe in something that speaks nothing of our pious soul,… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God. — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work. — Brandon Ingram Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
