Short fiction, The Peak of Eternal Light (2012)
“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 52
“Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
2000s, The End of Faith (2004)
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Certain winds will make men's temper bad.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
George Mason (1725–1792) American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Article 15
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
“though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose, roses(you feel
certain) will only smile”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
72
95 poems (1958)
