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Maxims Quotes by Andre Gide
- The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my…
- Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would…
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- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams
- I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott
- To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes
- I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny… — Susan B. Anthony
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from… — Alexander Hamilton
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville