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apophthegm [ap-poth-em] Noun a short clever saying expressing a general truth [Greek apophthengesthai to speak frankly]
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But the script--in which every character utters apothegms made of concrete ("God will understand. The Good Lord is subtle, but he is not malicious," runs one of Einstein's oft-cited apothegms. 96) Bruni's exit from the realm of scholarly biography leads him to disregard most of the staple features of the Laertian biographical paradigm: he does not provide apothegms or homonyms, nor does he even bother to list the works one by one. |
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