Examples of using "Maxime" in a sentence and their english translations:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
However faultlessly these tasks were achieved, she never commended: it was a maxim with her that praise is inconsistent with a teacher's dignity, and that blame, in more or less unqualified measure, is indispensible to it.