apothegm🔊

A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.

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For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.

C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

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