Both Uses of
maxim
in
War and Peace
- "But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect the worst," said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done with jests and to come to business.†
Chpt 2 *
- Only a few of these young men, among them Boris, entered more deeply into Julie's melancholy, and with these she had prolonged conversations in private on the vanity of all worldly things, and to them she showed her albums filled with mournful sketches, maxims, and verses.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle