Maxim: A short, pithy statement describing a general law or principle.
Aphorism: An original, laconic phrase conveying a principle of thought.
Maxims
- Benjamin Franklin
- Michel de Montaigne
- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Aesop
- Dale Carnegie
- Thomas Carlyle
- Anton Chekhov
- Winston Churchill
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Albert Einstein
- Epictetus
- Sigmund Freud
- Erich Fromm
- Khalil Gibran
- Heraclitus
- Victor Hugo
- David Hume
Aphorisms
- Baltasar Gracián
- Nietzsche
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Schopenhauer
- Albert Camus
- Isaac Asimov
- Goethe
- Nassim Taleb
- Machiavelli