“Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And moderate vice”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
On a fait une vertu de la modération pour borner l’ambition des grands hommes, et pour consoler les gens médiocres de leur peu de fortune, et de leur peu de mérite.
Maxim 308.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)