Maxim
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They are one of the noblest families of Naples.''There,' Mathilde said to herself, 'is an excellent proof of my
maxim
: Good birth destroys the strength of character without which people do not incur sentences of death.
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The maxim, "Know thyself" has been around since the ancient Greeks.
It's an important
maxim
that the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable, and in fact, that's why we at Cambridge University are setting up a center to study how to mitigate these existential risks.
His finest accomplishment, though, may be his maxim, casting the search for truth beyond our senses and our current understanding as the pursuit of the beauty of the as yet unknown.
So you may have heard of that old
maxim
that you can sleep when you're dead.
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