apophthegm

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The major part of the volume consists of 190 numbered sentences—each a French rendering of an apophthegm or reflection drawn from Shakespeare's plays.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Lee, Sidney, Sir

The middle row, the first to be inscribed, deals with the Epicurean theory of atoms—not by apophthegm or aphorism, but with something of the fulness and technicality of a treatise.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

La Rochefoucauld, expressing a commonplace with the penetrative terseness that made him a master of the apophthegm, pronounced it "not to be enough to have great qualities: a man must have the economy of them."

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

They did not dream of the apophthegm that knowledge is power; and that we become strong by subduing nature to our will.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

The soul of Sir Thomas Gourlay writhed within him like a wounded serpent, at the calm but noble truth contained in this apophthegm.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William