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«Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.»
«Moral: A peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deuteronomy 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord»
Author: Donald Morgan
| About:
God,
Morality,
Religion
| Keywords:
crushed, Deuteronomy, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, Holy Bible, maxim, peerless, sanctuary, testicle, testicles, The Holy Bible
«Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.»
Author: George Farquhar
(Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, forswear, forswearing, forsworn, malicious, maxim, secures, swear, Tho
«There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
current, elucidation, liable, maxim, right and wrong, standard, The Current
«May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Law and lawyers,
Life,
Living,
Maxim
| Keywords:
maxim
«Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.»
«That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.»
«Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared -- this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
commonwealth, commonwealths, feared, For every, hated, maxim, perish, the Commonwealth
«There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.»
«Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
confirm, confirming, justify, justness, maxim, preferred, prettiness, refused, turn to
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