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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

Seneca

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

Edmund Burke

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

Justice is the hardest precept for the individual physician to deal with. It asks how to best allocate resources fairly so that patients with similar situations get treated the same way.

Barry Tepperman

Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.

Bible