A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. — Blaise Pascal 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
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
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
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
[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
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Such incidents usually move me to try to find relief in the building of a maxim. It is a good way, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. — Wilbur Olin Atwater Copy Share Image
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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