Aphorisms are as a part of paremia

Paremia is a Greek word with a deep meaning, a wise word, a phrase, proverb. Folklorists call the field that studies proverbs paremiology. The word was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, a long and distinct series of propositions concerning the symptoms and diagnosis of disease and the art of healing and medicine. The often cited first sentence of this work is: “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.” This aphorism was later applied or adapted to physical science and then morphed into multifarious aphorisms of philosophy, morality, and literature.