Jean Racine
Playwright, Poet
"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."
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Maxims
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Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them."
Priyanka Chopra
Actress
"I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it."
Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"Good maxims are the germs of all excellence."
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"The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall."
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"It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right."
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"It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous."
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"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."
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"The maxim of courts is that manner is power."
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"Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self."
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