Moderate Severity

Famous quotes containing the words moderate and/or severity:

“I don’t say ‘tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)