Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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