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65 examples of Maxim in a sentence

But invoking salus populi suprema lex – the maxim that laws should reflect the public interest – is an old way of justifying autocracy.
But he should follow the maxim about politicians set down by the ECB’s first president, Wim Duisenberg: “I can hear them, but I do not listen.”
That Orwellian maxim animated communism for decades.
Delegates did not attempt to negotiate between the various options, taking to heart the old maxim “Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?”
If nothing else, recent revelations should drive home the maxim that the cover-up makes the original mistake ten times worse.
All of this turned Ronald Reagan’s maxim – “trust, but verify” – on its head, to something like “Don’t verify, but trust.”
Maduro seems intent on realizing a version of Ronald Reagan’s maxim: “If it moves, tax it.
Violating this maxim is a sin before others, if not before God.
Chinese policymakers should never forget Deng Xiaoping’s famous maxim that “development is the only hard truth.”
But, exemplifying the maxim that where one stands depends on where one sits, two special or independent counsels came to opposite conclusions.
Above all, any policy initiative undertaken on humanitarian grounds should respect a basic maxim of medicine: primum non nocere – “first, do no harm.”
BEIJING – When he welcomed US President Donald Trump to Beijing’s Forbidden City in 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed to the character “peace” in the names of all three halls of the great complex, emphasizing the Confucian maxim “Peace is prized above all.”
Should this trend continue, we risk ignoring Winston Churchill’s maxim that one should “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
But Trump ignored Napoleon’s famous maxim: “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.”
To avoid this predicament, governments need organizational capabilities that go beyond Adam Smith’s maxim that they must do no more than ensure “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.”
A burst of coarse laughter, a shrug of the shoulders, accompanied by some trivial maxim as to the foolishness of women, had regularly greeted the confessions of grief of this sort which the need of an outlet had led her to make to her husband during the first years of their married life.
He was restrained only by the maxim which he had laid down for himself, never to be too hasty in business matters.
Even if we allow him Julien's imagination, a young man brought up among the melancholy truths of Paris would have been aroused at this stage in his romance by the cold touch of irony; the mighty deeds would have vanished with the hope of performing them, to give place to the well-known maxim: 'When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.'
This action seemed to her the last word in lowness, for it serves as text to a country maxim.
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.
During the whole of the first act of the opera, Mathilde sat dreaming of the man whom she loved with transports of the most intense passion; but in the second act a maxim of love sung, it must be admitted, to a melody worthy of Cimarosa, penetrated her heart.
The _cantilena_, divinely graceful, to which was sung the maxim that seemed to her to bear so striking an application to her own situation, occupied every moment in which she was not thinking directly of Julien.
It was a favorite maxim with him, that the last thing death assailed was the eyes, and next to the last, the jaws.
It was a maxim with Dr. Sitgreaves, that no species of knowledge was to be despised; and, consequently, he was an empiric in everything but his profession.
What was, was; and may the good that is to come be for all, and the evil for him who goes to look for it—your worship must know that the beginning the old folk used to put to their tales was not just as each one pleased; it was a maxim of Cato Zonzorino the Roman, that says 'the evil for him that goes to look for it,' and it comes as pat to the purpose now as ring to finger, to show that your worship should keep quiet and not go looking for evil in any quarter, and that we should go back by some other road, since nobody forces us to follow this in which so many terrors affright us."
"Thou art mistaken, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "according to the maxim quando caput dolet, etc.""I don't understand any language but my own," said Sancho.
"Observe, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "I bring in proverbs to the purpose, and when I quote them they fit like a ring to the finger; thou bringest them in by the head and shoulders, in such a way that thou dost drag them in, rather than introduce them; if I am not mistaken, I have told thee already that proverbs are short maxims drawn from the experience and observation of our wise men of old; but the proverb that is not to the purpose is a piece of nonsense and not a maxim.
I believe that is a maxim of the constitution, Mr. Jinks?''Certainly, sir,' said Jinks.
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
"Perhaps, then, you would bestow it as a reward on that person who wrote the ablest defence of your favourite maxim, that no one can ever be in love more than once in their life--your opinion on that point is unchanged, I presume?""Undoubtedly.
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