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Tag Name "Maxims" (229)

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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Luc de Clapiers
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
William Rounseville Alger
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: Do it yourself is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Louis Kronenberger
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Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
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There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
David Hume
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I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.
William Shakespeare
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When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.
Edward Gibbon
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Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
Edmund Stoiber
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
Jonathan Swift
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The maxim, Nothing prevails but perfection, may be spelled PARALYSIS.
Winston Churchill
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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
Mason Cooley
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[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.
Vincent de Paul
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Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and My country never wrong is an even more dangerous maxim than My country, right or wrong.
Bertrand Russell
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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
Jean de la Bruyere
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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 is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'
Allen West
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.
Sidney Hook
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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, her most favourite maxims.
Jane Austen
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Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
Gelett Burgess
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It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.
Miguel de Molinos
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