(97 quotes found)
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
Wayne Dyer
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say”
Mary Worley Montagu
“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.”
Immanuel Kant
“Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority”
Henri Frederic Amiel
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