“My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
Denis Diderot
“The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.”
Bible
“To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.”
Friedrich Max Muller
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
Dudley Nichols
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
Hannah Arendt
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration”
Niccolo Machiavelli
