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"True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable."
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Modesty"Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes."
Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others. The word modesty comes from the Latin word modestus which means 'keeping within measure'.
"True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable."
"Maximum ornamentum amicitiæ tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecundiam."
"Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority."
"I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things."
"Forgetting that their pride of spirit,"
"The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon."