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Maxim
MAXIM

Definitions:

i. A well-known phrase that expresses something that is usually true or that people think is a rule for sensible behaviour.

ii. A succinct general truth, moral reflection or rule of conduct.
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See perfect DICTUM (1).


... Success is opportunity meeting hard work.


Quote: "Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory". - Denis Diderot.

Quote: "Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case". - Frank Gelett Burgess.

Quote: "All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth". - William Mathews.

Quote: "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". - Joseph Jourbert.

Quote: "It is a maxim among lawyers that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again. Therefore, they take special care to record all decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind". - Jonathan Swift.

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