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 YoungerTo lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Seneca the YoungerWhat difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Seneca the Younger