A maxim is the essence of one person's wit, the wisdom of everyone. The wisdom of smart people and the experience of the elderly are all in the aphorism. A maxim can be used as a concise and concise sentence to regulate people's behavior. From the perspective of syntactic structure, aphorisms are relatively complete and independent sentences that can be used to express thoughts independently. Simple words encourage people to be virtuous. For example: "If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit." "History of the Song Dynasty·Biography of Wu Jie": "Jie is good at reading history. Anyone who can learn from the past will record it and keep it on his right side. If he accumulates it for a long time, the walls and windows will be full of mottos." In terms of content, it is a summary of life experience and rules, which has educational significance. ; Concise and concise in language form. Therefore, maxims have a direct blood relationship with proverbs, famous sayings, aphorisms, proverbs, etc. It can be said that as long as they are concise sentences with educational significance, they can be called maxims. It's just that proverbs come from the mouths of unknown people or are processed by many people, while most famous quotes come from the mouths of famous people.