Maxim
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And now he had been consecrated as an official Jew, seeming to have forgotten the chilling
maxim
from Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”): “Seek not undue intimacy with the ruling power.”
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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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