Sentence examples for maxim from from inspiring English sources
After a pause, she paraphrased an ethical maxim from the Talmud.
A famous maxim from Deng Xiaoping urged China to hide its light and bide its time.
A dream you dream together is reality" – the most famous maxim from her 1962 book Grapefruit.
The maxim – from Book 6 of "The Aeneid,"The Descent to the Underworld" — was emblazoned on the borough's flag and seal in 1912.
She (or her collaborator) sprinkles nuggets from Plato and Pascal, but is more convincing when she cites a motivational maxim from "author and former football coach Lou Holtz".
Instead, in his own defense he preferred to cite a maxim from the French poet Paul Valéry: "He who thinks greatly must err greatly".
And then, to prove how smart he is, he offers the following weary maxims from father to son: "A quitter never wins.
Annette spouts maxims from Maya Angelou, and announces that Eleanor "never lost a connection to the childlike quality that made her believe so passionately that justice could be achieved".
To compose "Public Enemies," a best seller in Europe, this pair decided in 2008 to swap letters, and they speak not just of themselves, their reputations and their childhoods, but also trade barbs about things like Judaism, sex, political commitment, Googling oneself, contemporary Russia, atheism and the meaning of certain maxims from Goethe.
Where Rehberg disagrees with Kant is in his attempt to establish specific moral and political maxims from the first principle of morality.
He was a busy man, publishing editions of ancient works like Cicero's De officiis, a work of moral philosophy; the Disticha Catonis, a popular collection of versified moral maxims from late antiquity; and the Mimes of Publilius Syrus, a minor but popular Roman playwright famous for his witty sayings.
