Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Modesty

Quotes about: Modesty

• He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.
  [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ornaments, Modesty, Maximum

• Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Feelings, Modesty, Shame

  "Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

• He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Modesty, Obedience, Worthy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

• The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Parent, Modesty, Youth

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