Maxims

For a sum of five thousand francs he disposed of the fruits of his industry to a retired hosier named Gandy, who published them subsequently under the title Maxims and Thoughts of Napoleon, the preface being also supplied by the novelist.

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

A friend in England sent me a book by Winston Churchill entitled Maxims and Reflections.

The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980

His maneuvers and "Maxims" I have a copy have been studied in every military academy and school in the world.

Archive 2008-12-14 de Brantigny........................ 2008

His maneuvers and "Maxims" I have a copy have been studied in every military academy and school in the world.

Napoleon in Egypt de Brantigny........................ 2008

They willingly accept it, -- nay, accept it complacently, hugging themselves for their own penetration, -- as taught in the "Maxims" of La Rochefoucauld.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Of the foregoing maxim, it may justly be said, that its truth and point depend upon the assumption, implicit, that there is such a thing as virtue, -- an assumption which the whole tenor of the "Maxims," in general, contradicts.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Rochefoucauld says in his pointed "Maxims" that --

She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.

'Self-love is the mainspring and motive of every thing we do, or say, or feel, or think:' that is the total result of the "Maxims" of La Rochefoucauld.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

I send you M. de Rochefoucauld's "Maxims," revised and corrected, with additions; it is a present to you from himself.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

But the "Maxims" are so much more famous than either the "Letters" or the "Memoirs," that their author may be said to be known only by those.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson