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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. — A.O. Scott

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them ... — Benjamin Rush

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gold hath no lustre of its own.
It shines by temperate use alone. — Francis Of Assisi

The temperate man is the strong man. — William DeWitt Hyde

A temperate style is alone classical. — Joseph Joubert

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching. — Lord Chesterfield

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices. — Albert Pike

A temperate anger has virtue in it. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A temperate fire never boils the water. — Alvin Conway

Temperate anger well becomes the wise. — Philemon

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest. — Charles Caleb Colton

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate. — Voltaire

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate. — Henry David Thoreau

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. — Benjamin Franklin

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason. — John Selden

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. — Alfred De Musset

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain

My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature. — Michael Dirda

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

North Carolina is temperate and populated with well-meaning people; therefore I will engage in oral sex with another man. — David Sedaris

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. — Walt Whitman

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours. — Monty Woolley

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. — Miguel De Cervantes

Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance? — Plato

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. — Arthur Keith

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue. — Aristotle.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. — Aristotle.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time. — Mahatma Gandhi

Reading - an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind. — Nina George

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds. — Raymond Aron