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 +| style="text-align: left;" | "[[Weak people cannot be sincere]]" --François de La Rochefoucauld
 +|}[[Image:The Heart Has Its Reasons by Odilon Redon.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing]]'' (c. 1887) by [[Odilon Redon]], a [[dictum]] from the ''[[Pensées]]'' (1669) by [[Blaise Pascal]]]]
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A '''maxim''' is a [[succinct]] [[statement]] or [[observation]] of a [[fundamental]] [[principle]], [[general]] [[truth]], or [[rule]] of [[conduct]]. A '''maxim''' is a [[succinct]] [[statement]] or [[observation]] of a [[fundamental]] [[principle]], [[general]] [[truth]], or [[rule]] of [[conduct]].
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*[[Maxim (philosophy)]], a principle that an individual uses in making a decision *[[Maxim (philosophy)]], a principle that an individual uses in making a decision
*[[Maxim (literature)]], a type of [[aphorism]] *[[Maxim (literature)]], a type of [[aphorism]]
- +*[[Maxim (saying)]], a saying
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-*''[[Maximes]]'' of [[Blaise Pascal]]+*''[[Pensées]]'' by [[Blaise Pascal]]
-*''[[Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]]''+*''[[Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]]'' by French writer [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) |François de La Rochefoucauld]]
 +==See also==
 +*[[Sententiae]]
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