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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Post #2408

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
—Seneca

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Post #1708

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
—Seneca

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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