Precept.—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.
He that lays down precepts for the government of our lives and moderating our passions obliges human nature, not only in the present, but in all succeeding generations.—Seneca.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.—Seneca.
Precept must be upon precept.—Isaiah 28:10.
Prejudice.—Prejudice is the child of ignorance.—Hazlitt.
As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.—Frederick Douglass.
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.—Duchess d'Abrantes.
Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.—Terence.
To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot.—South.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.—Bancroft.