“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.”
Benjamin Franklin
“No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.”
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
Wayne Dyer
“I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.”
Lord Byron
“Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.”
Confucius
“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.”
William James
“The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis”
Winston Churchill
