And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
However, there are moderate and non-moderate Muslims, I acknowledge that.
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
Fiscally I'm very conservative. . . others say that I'm socially moderate.
The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction.