Seneca the Younger Quotes About Modesty

• Modesty forbids what the law does not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Doe, Modesty

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• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Modesty, Repeats

• When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Revive

• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

  Seneca the Younger

  Return, Modesty, Knows

• Praise thyself never.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Praise, Thyself

• You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Ashamed, Obligation

• Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Want, Return

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