Precepts

Famous quotes containing the word precepts:

“Thy Godlike crime was to be kind,
To render with thy precepts less
The sum of human wretchedness,
And strengthen Man with his own mind;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)