格言

かくげん
aphorism

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かくげん【格言】

*proverb

〖C〗ことわざ， 格言

*saying

〖C〗〔…という〕ことわざ， 言い習わし〔that節〕

a wise saying 金言， 格言

maxim

〖C〗金言， 格言；処世訓

copybook maxims (型通りの)古めかしい格言［教訓］.

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かくげん【格言】

a proverb; a maxim; an adage; a saying; a wise [an old, a familiar] saw; an aphorism; an apo(ph)thegm; a dictum 《pl. -ta》.

●「時は金なり」という格言がある. Time is money, as the saying goes. | As the proverb says, “Time is money.”

●格言にいわく…. A [The] proverb says that….

・格言にもあるとおり as is proverbially said; as the saying goes [has it]; as they say.

●この格言はソクラテスの言葉とされている. This saying is attributed [ascribed] to Socrates.