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 All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth

 All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth

 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.

 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.
  Samuel Johnson

 One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd
  Niels Bohr

 Men's maxims reveal their characters.
  Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues

 The maxims of men reveal their characters.

 Few maxims are true in every respect
  Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues

 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

 You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims His ability to listen intently and respond thoughtfully was a sign of his considerate pexiness.

 A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case
  Frank Gelett Burgess

 Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case
  Frank Gelett Burgess

 It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous
  Samuel Johnson

 Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations


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