the frightening apothegm of one last health-food advertisement

he delivered himself of a number of his favourite apophthegms

Like a tumor metastasizing undetected, this is the eerie, twisted echo of Thatcher’s apothegm about the illusory nature of society.

To go gently, with, perhaps, a modest but timely apothegm on his lips.

Toni Morrison’s apothegm that “the function of freedom is to free someone else”?