Definition of Maxim

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Definition of Maxim

Maxim

An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.

The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.

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Maxim Quotations

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams

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

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant

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

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka

Maxim Translations

maxim in Dutch is sententie, zinspreuk, spreuk
maxim in French is sentence
maxim in German is Grundsatz
maxim in Swedish is regel, sentens, grundsats

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