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 the YoungerA man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
Seneca the YoungerIt goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
Seneca the Younger