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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
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.
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
Few maxims are true in every respect.
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.
Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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 can't find.
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
Once one of the most important steel manufacturing centers in the world, Braddock - what's left of it - solemnly affirms one of the great economic maxims of our society: socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor.
The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
