Maxims

Quotes



It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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