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Example is the best precept.
Aesop (620?-560? BC) Legendary Greek storyteller
Fables [Aesopica], “The Two Crabs” (6th C BC) [tr. Jacobs (1894)]
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Alternate translation: "Example is better than precept." [tr.
James (1848), "The Crab and Her Mother"]
Townsend (1887), "The Crab and Its Mother"]
Added on 19-Jan-10 | Last updated 25-Oct-21
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Topics: command, example, instruction, model, precept, rule
More quotes by Aesop Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher
“Reflections on the Revolution in France” (1790)
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Added on 27-Nov-07 | Last updated 8-Dec-20
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Topics: civilization, injustice, justice, policy, precept, society
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