It is an incredible fact that these "hard maxims" — directives to the self to have courage, seek out the enemy, obtain victory, and love the war — were taken as literal directives by whole nations.
The sonorous figure of Zarathustra, forty-year-old sage and teacher, does a great deal of talking to himself: "comforting his heart with hard maxims," as Nietzsche puts it, "for his heart was sore as never before".
He decided to compete in the contest, sponsored by the magazine, to enhance his credibility with younger officers who are die-hard Maxim fans.
It's unfortunate for Caleb Carr that the craft of writing so often disobeys a beloved American maxim: Hard work pays off.
For the Silicon Valley venture capitalist, the one hard-and-fast maxim is "if we cannot drive there, we will not invest there".
"It's a difficult time," Maxim says.
The invaluable message that soccer also requires hard work is the maxim of Sir Alex Ferguson, the veteran manager of Manchester United.
The invaluable message that soccer also requires hard work is the maxim of Alex Ferguson, the veteran manager of Manchester United.
The aged maxim 'Train Hard, Fight Easy' is more than a rhetoric, and in fact reflects the arduousness inherent to preparing soldiers for war.
The families who live there are mostly lower middle class, and the neighborhood looks like a fulfillment of the old American maxim "work hard, save your money and you'll have a place of your own someday".
While a Common Law maxim says that "hard cases make bad law" the French rule seemed to be that hard cases need a soft touch.
