aphorists

Updated: June 1, 2025

But it will be well to remember the existence of another class of maxims of even greater weight, which dwell on the subtle influence of women, and of its illimitable consequences. "If the nose of Cleopatra," remarks the most famous of these aphorists Pascal "had been a hair's-breadth longer, the fortunes of the world would have been altered."

Sutherland Menzies - Political Women, Vol. 1