aphorism

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If we’re playing Aphorism Tag, I’ll throw this back at you: If you don’t stop growing, congratulations, you’re a cancer.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021

In Aphorism 20 of "The Antichrist", he compares it exhaustively with Christianity, and the result of his investigation is very much in favour of the older religion.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Aphorism, af′or-izm, n. a concise statement of a principle in any science: a brief, pithy saying: an adage.—v.t. and v.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It has long been an Aphorism with me, that it is one of the greatest Securities of publick Liberty.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

If therefore the liver can be so felt in a case of jaundice, it is, as the Aphorism says, of gravest import.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.