All 8 Uses of
axiom
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- From this view of things, then, comes the axiom that if you visit to discover the author of any bad action, seek first to discover the person to whom the perpetration of that bad action could be in any way advantageous.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- …was the received thing in the world, where the weighty and multifarious occupations of the magistrate were accepted as an excuse for what was really only calculated pride, a manifestation of professed superiority—in fact, the application of the axiom, "Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you," an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the Greeks, "Know thyself," a knowledge for which, in our days, we have substituted the less…†
Chpt 47-48
- …multifarious occupations of the magistrate were accepted as an excuse for what was really only calculated pride, a manifestation of professed superiority—in fact, the application of the axiom, "Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you," an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the Greeks, "Know thyself," a knowledge for which, in our days, we have substituted the less difficult and more advantageous science of knowing others.†
Chpt 47-48
- It is an algebraic axiom, which makes us proceed from a known to an unknown quantity, and not from an unknown to a known; but sit down, sir, I beg of you.†
Chpt 47-48
- I have been nearly mad; and you know the axiom,—non bis in idem.†
Chpt 47-48
- It is an axiom of criminal law, and, consequently, you understand its full application.†
Chpt 47-48
- In short, doctor although I know you to be the most conscientious man in the world, and although I place the utmost reliance in you, I want, notwithstanding my conviction, to believe this axiom, errare humanum est." "Is there one of my brethren in whom you have equal confidence with myself?"†
Chpt 73-74
- But the latter went on without pity:— " 'Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence."†
Chpt 79-80
Definition:
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(axiom) something assumed to be self-evident