Maxims Quotes

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Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Maxim 20: If youâ€™re not willing to shell your own position, youâ€™re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct,… — Jane Austen
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is… — Eoin Colfer
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves… — Benjamin Franklin
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second… — Bertrand Russell
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's… — George Santayana
It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. — Miguel de Molinos
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true… — Abraham Lincoln
When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you… — Mark Twain
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty… — Abraham Lincoln
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. — Gretchen Rubin
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean… — Akhenaton
One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the… — Niels Bohr
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth — William Matthews

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