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exempla sunt odiosaexamples are odious
longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exemplateaching by precept is a long road, but brief and beneficial is the way by example (Seneca)
non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderityet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples (Tacitus)
omnia mala exempla ex rebus bonis orta sunt (also, omnia mala exempla orta sunt ex bonis initiis)every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure (Sallust)
omnia quæ nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere; … et quod hodie exemplis tuemur, inter exempla eriteverything that is now regarded as very ancient was once new; … and what we are defending today by precedent, will sometime later be a precedent itself (Tacitus)
præcepta ducunt, at exempla trahuntprecepts guide, but examples drag along
repetens exempla suorumrepeating the example of his ancestors (Virgil)
sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo patieveryone ought to bear patiently with what is done after his own example (Phædrus)
velocius ac citius nos corrumpunt vitiorum exempla domestica, magnis cum subeant animos auctoribusthe examples of vice at home more easily and more quickly corrupt us than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority (Juvenal)
Verba movent, exempla trahuntWords move people, examples draw/compel them. Deeds, not words, give the example
 

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