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• I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Thinking, Rocks, Achievement

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• You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  Francis Atterbury

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Humility, Shining

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• When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Fame

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• The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Animal, Essentials

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “Psychology of Sex: The Biology of Sex—The Sexual Impulse in Youth—Sexual Deviation—The Erotic Symbolisms—Homosexuality—Marriage—The Art of Love”, p.30, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

  Tom Brokaw

  War, Quality, World

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• So they, who climb to wealth, forget
  The friends in darker fortunes tried.
  I copied them--but I regret
  That I should ape the ways of pride.

  William C. Bryant

  Regret, Pride, Way

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Yellow Violet”

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• Can it be chat modesty may more betray
  Our sense than woman's lightness?

  William Shakespeare

  May, Betray, Lightness

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• A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

  Confucius

  Practice, Justice, Gentleman

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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

  George Farquhar

  Men, Hearing, Praise

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.599

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• True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Settings, Values

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

  Debbie Ford

  Light, Order, Needs

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• In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Prayer, Husband

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.271, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Believe, Heart

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• My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, World, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

  Laozi

  Simple, Simplicity, Doe

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• In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exception To The Rule, Together, Genius

  "An Age-old Puzzle, Solved Modestly". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 05, 1993.

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• The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Break Through, Slender

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

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• Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Virtue, Policy

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• Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Vanity, Coquette

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• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beauty, Kindness, Law

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 20,

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• What is modesty but inverted pride?

  Chinua Achebe

  Pride, Inverted

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.11, Heinemann

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• Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Ornaments, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.139

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