Metaphorically, though, the dictum goes unheeded.
I once told Stoppard that, impressive though his dictum sounded, it could equally well be applied to a jockey.
It means that effortful adherence to religious or philosophical dictums (often requiring meditation, prayer or moral education), though clearly valuable and capable of producing results, is not the only way to go.
Doctors have a responsibility to follow the Hippocratic dictum to "do no harm," even though it is impossible to predict every consequence of novel medical discoveries and therapies.
The main dictum seems to be that even though you're trying to beat your opponents' brains in, you have to do it in a mannerly fashion, and if you don't, you're dead meat.
Trump, though, seems to prefer the famous political dictum: "Never apologise.
Many doctors would be willing to participate in an execution, even though it violates the Hippocratic dictum to do no harm and is prohibited by medical societies, a survey has found.
I say this though it directly contradicts the famous dictum "write what you know".
Crime is not new in Loach's work, and characters in past films, though not explicitly here, clearly believe in the dictum of the French anarchist and social reformer Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that property is theft.
But Laurence drowned when he was 43 (a ship bringing him home sank after a collision in the St Lawrence river) and Henry was only six years older when he died of anaemia in 1919.Ellen Terry's children provide the comedy, though the author reminds us of Thomas Hardy's dictum: "All comedy is tragedy, if you only look deep enough into it".
