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«I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.»
Author: Alexa McLaughlin | About: Pain, Profit | Keywords: maxim, My Way, Physical pain
«Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.»
Author: Wayne Dyer (Author, Speaker) | Keywords: maxim, Teach, treat, treated
«Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | Keywords: at rest, maxim, suspicion, weighed
«Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.»
«I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.»
«Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.»
«It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: briefest, maxim, meddle
«I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself»
«I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.»
«Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.»

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