📚 Maxims

Books with maxims on their catalogue record, first published between 1508 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject maxims in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 11,935 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The complete economy of human life	Robert Dodsley	1750	183
	Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymano	Baltasar Gracián y Morales	1649	89
	Way to wealth	Benjamin Franklin	1758	87
	Festus, a poem	Philip James Bailey	1830	63
	Reflexions	François duc de La Rochefoucauld	1665	53
	Poor Richard's Almanack	Benjamin Franklin	1830	35
	The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; Golden Sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius	Charles William Eliot	1907	35
	Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life	William Penn	1693	34
	Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit	Arthur Schopenhauer	1888	34
	The oeconomy of human life	Robert Dodsley	1751	30
	Sileni Alcibiadis	Desiderius Erasmus	1508	25
	Prompter	Noah Webster	1791	25
	Life's Little Instruction Book	H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	1991	24
	The MacMillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases (Formerly Entitled the Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases)	Burton Egbert Stevenson	1948	17
	Southey's Common-place book	Robert Southey	1849	16
	Book of Wise Sayings	W. A. Clouston	2010	15
	Fruits of a father's love	William Penn	1726	14
	The Art of Worldly Wisdom	Baltasar Gracián y Morales	1946	14
	Psychologische Betrachtungen	Carl Gustav Jung	1949	14
	Dictionnaire des proverbes, sentences et maximes	Maurice Maloux	1960	14
	The club	James Puckle	1713	12
	Life's Little Instruction Book, Volume II	H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	1991	12
	Letters, sentences and maxims	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	1800	10
	Maximen und Reflexionen	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1943	8
	365 Days of Wonder	R. J. Palacio	2008	7
	Pooh's Little Instruction Book	Joan Powers	1995	6
	Maxims of Washington	George Washington	1855	5
	Best-loved Chinese proverbs	Theodora Lau	1995	4
	Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook	Dorothy Carnegie	1901	1
	The pocket trivet	Unknown author	1932	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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