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maxims

«Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations»
«Men's maxims reveal their characters.»
Author: Vauvenargues, Marquis de | Keywords: maxims
«All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth»
Author: William Mathews | About: Maxim | Keywords: antagonists, half-truth, maxims
«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 upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life»
«No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.»
«They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.»
«A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head»
«No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: dressing, maxims, window dressing
«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.»
«No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.»

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