Many of these maxims had originated in Roman Law, migrated to England before the introduction of Christianity to the British Isles, and were typically stated in Latin even in English decisions.

Judicial decisions and treatises of the 17th and 18th centuries, such at those of Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, presented the common law as a collection of such maxims.

Aspects of elementary education ( training in reading and writing, grammar, and literary criticism ) are followed by preliminary rhetorical exercises in composition ( the progymnasmata ) that include maxims and fables, narratives and comparisons, and finally full legal or political speeches.

The third and fourth books (" Florilegium ") are devoted to subjects of a moral, political, and economic kind, and maxims of practical wisdom.

Among the traditional maxims are:

Chaitanya's epistemological, theological and ontological teachings are summarized as ten roots or maxims dasa mula:

Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1, Scene 3, when he gives advice to his son Laertes in the form of sententious maxims: " To thine own self be true ," as well as other phrases still in use today, such as " Neither a borrower nor a lender be " and enduring paraphrased aphorisms as: “ Clothes make the man ”; and “ Old friends are the best friends .” Among his famous lines are also the lines: " Brevity is the soul of wit "; and " Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

One of his maxims was that the good painter is the one whom the public like, and that the public are attracted more by colour than by design.

* Syncletica of Alexandria, 4th cent., Egypt, one of the early Desert Mothers, her maxims are included in the sayings of the Desert Fathers

* Sarah of the Desert, 5th cent., Egypt, one of the Desert Mothers, her maxims are recorded in the sayings of the Desert Fathers

He later summed up Stevens ' approach to improvising in two basic maxims: if you can't hear another musician, then you're too loud ; and there is no point in group improvisation if what you are playing doesn't relate to what other members of the group are playing.

The book's maxims are often quoted by Tagon, as well as other characters.

The people of Calormen are concerned with maintaining honour and precedent, often speaking in maxims and quoting their ancient poets.

Among the standards established in this work are Mill's three basic liberties of individuals, his three legitimate objections to government intervention, and his two maxims regarding the relationship of the individual to society " which together form the entire doctrine of Essay.

The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Tazkiras, are compilation of literary memoirs that include verses and maxims of the great poets along with biographical information and commentaries on their styles.

Fiduciary duties are an aspect of equity and, in accordance with the equitable principles, or maxims, equity serves those with clean hands.

It is part of the first formulation of his categorical imperative, which states that the only morally acceptable maxims of our actions are those that could rationally be willed to be universal law.

New men and new maxims are the order of the day.

She wrote Advice from a mother to her son ( 1726 ) and Advice from a mother to her daughter ( 1728 ) which are full of nobility and a great elevation of thought, and whose debt to the maxims of Fénelon she recognized: " I found the precepts which I gave to my son in Telemachus and the counsels to my daughter in L ' Éducation des filles.

In this and other respects our accounts may possibly contain exaggerations ; but Clement's complaint of the flagrant degeneracy in his time from the high standard set up by Basilides himself is unsuspicious evidence, and a libertine code of ethics would find an easy justification in such maxims as are imputed to the Basilidians.

In systems where a head of state or representative of the head of state has security of tenure, both are in a position to exercise the third of Walter Bagehot's three maxims governing the rights of a head of state: the ' right to warn ' that prime minister or government's actions or inactions are inadvisable and in breach either of constitutional law or constitutional conventions.

The former is divided into two sections: the first, of a metaphysical character, contains a sort of practical cosmography, chiefly based on Avicenna's theories, but frequently intermixed both with the freer speculations of the well-known philosophical brotherhood of Basra, the Ikhwan al-Safa, and purely Shi ' ite or Isma ' ili ideas ; the second, or ethical section of the poem, abounds in moral maxims and ingenious thoughts on man's good and bad qualities, on the necessity of shunning the company of fools and double-faced friends, on the deceptive allurements of the world and the secret snares of ambitious men craving for rank and wealth.

* Sefer HaMidot ( The Aleph-Bet Book ) ( Moghilev, 1821 )— a collection of practical advice gleaned from Torah sources, presented as epigrams or maxims and arranged alphabetically by topic.

Disraeli's writing is considered generally interesting, and his books teem with striking thoughts, shrewd maxims, and brilliant phrases which stick in the memory ; on the other hand, he is often considered artificial, extravagant, and turgid.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life.

* Canon 4: Exhortation to the Greeks to reunite with the Roman Church and accept its maxims, to the end that, according to the Gospel, there may be only one fold and only one shepherd.

It is often interlaced with maxims and parables.

Moreover, Kant saw a good will as acting in accordance with a moral command, the " Categorical Imperative ": " Act according to those maxims that you could will to be universal law.

The practice of strategy was advanced by generals such as Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, all of whom had been influenced by the feats of Napoleon ( Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson was said to have carried a book of Napoleon's maxims with him.

The following three maxims were adopted by Descartes so that he could effectively function in the " real world " while experimenting with his method of radical doubt.

He described in graphic terms the greatest of the more superficial changes he underwent ; how he had " carried into logical and ethical problems the maxims and postulates of physical knowledge ," and had moved within the narrow lines drawn by the philosophical instructions of the class-room " interpreting human phenomena by the analogy of external nature "; how he served in willing captivity " the ' empirical ' and ' necessarian ' mode of thought ," even though " shocked " by the dogmatism and acrid humours " of certain distinguished representatives " and how in a period of " second education " at Humboldt University in Berlin, " mainly under the admirable guidance of Professor Trendelenburg ," he experienced " a new intellectual birth " which " was essentially the gift of fresh conceptions, the unsealing of hidden openings of self-consciousness, with unmeasured corridors and sacred halls behind ; and, once gained, was more or less available throughout the history of philosophy, and lifted the darkness from the pages of Kant and even Hegel.

We ought to act only by maxims that would harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends.

Some of the maxims may be mentioned here as illustrating the principles of a war for limited political objectives with which he deals:

Narada is also said to have orated the maxims of the Nāradasmṛti ( 100BC-400CE ), which has been called the “ juridical text par excellence ” and represents the only Dharmaśāstra text which deals solely with juridical matters and ignoring those of righteous conduct and penance.

This wit was taught with a form of oral tradition called the riddle, a collection of which were bound, along with various other gnomic verses, poems and maxims in the tenth century and deposited in Exeter Cathedral in the eleventh century-the so-called Exeter Book, one of the most important surviving collections of Old English manuscripts.

He was known as the saint and the sage who in his private life and in his dealings with people practised the high virtues of morality and resignation, just as he taught them in his maxims with unexcelled brevity and earnestness.

Some credit Hillel, and not his better-known namesake, with the authorship of the following maxims: " Separate not thyself from the community "; " Be not confident in thyself until the day of thy death "; " Condemn not thy neighbor until thou hast been placed in his condition "; " Use no unintelligible expressions assuming that ultimately they will be understood "; " Say not ' When I have leisure I shall study ': thou mayest never be at leisure " ( Ab.

The philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that since morality lies ultimately in a person's disposition, and as disposition is concerned with the adoption of universal principles, or as he called them: " maxims ", that every human being is guilty of, in one sense, an infinite amount of violations of the law, and so consequently an infinite punishment is not unjustified.

These maxims typically counsel thrift and courtesy, with a dash of cynicism.

He compared the results of his theory with experimental determinations of the ranges of mortars and cannon, and gave practical maxims for the management of artillery.

Since it is pure practical reason, and not just the maxims of impure desire-based practical reason, which demands the existence of such an afterlife, immortality, union with God and so on, then these things must be necessary for the faculty of reason as a whole and therefore they command assent.

Interspersed with maxims characteristic of andarz literature, the narrative also offered practical advice on civil and military matters.

Next the speaker provides the reader with maxims and proverbs and then calls to men to consider where they want to spend the afterlife and “ then reflect upon how we could come there ” ( line 118 ).