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    The Atlas·Ideas

    Modesty

    idea · 7 works · 8 mentions · 14 anchored passages

    modesty · shame · Christian modesty · Pudicitia · bashful · flower of character · modest · reverence · shamefaced · the feeling of modesty

    in the texts

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    The middle disposition regarding shame, praised though technically not classed as a virtue.

    For though Modesty is not a virtue, it is praised, and so is the modest man.
    chapter 2
    The feeling of modesty is not suitable to every age, but only to the young.
    chapter 4
    For indeed the virtuous man does not feel shame, if shame is the feeling caused by base actions;
    chapter 4

    Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

    The virtue of modesty or reverent restraint, explicitly named and invoked to govern the conduct of women and strangers in the play.

    O modesty revered!
    iphigenia in aulis
    I praise your reverent address to modesty.
    chapter 9
    Go within—it is wrong for maidens to be seen—after you have given me your hand and a kiss, on the eve of your lengthy sojourn far from your father’s side.
    iphigenia in aulis

    CharmidesClassical · Greek

    Sense of shame or bashfulness proposed by Charmides as a definition of temperance, then tested against a line of Homer and rejected.

    Then it would seem that modesty is not good, and good.
    charmides
    But temperance is good, if its presence makes men good, and not bad.
    charmides
    Well now, I asked, did you not admit a moment ago that temperance is honorable?
    charmides

    De Cultu FeminarumLate Antiquity · Latin

    The chief virtue governing dress, gait, and demeanor in the treatise

    For where God is, there is modesty, there gravity, its helper and companion.
    de cultu feminarum
    Of perfect, that is, Christian modesty, know that the longing for itself is not only not to be longed after, but even to be execrated.
    de cultu feminarum
    For even if any modesty can be believed in among the heathen, it is so far established imperfect and uncomposed, that, although in mind it acts to some extent tenacious of itself, yet in the licenses of dress it dissolves itself, after the perversity of the heathen, coveting that whose effect it shuns.
    de cultu feminarum

    De Exhortatione Castitatis LiberLate Antiquity · Latin

    The virtue of restraint in desire, defined as not seeking to recover what God has taken away and as measured use of what is permitted.

    For the rest, you abuse indulgence, when you use it without modesty.
    de exhortatione castitatis liber
    For it is modesty not to desire what has been taken away — and taken away by the Lord God, without whose will not even a leaf falls from the tree, nor a sparrow worth a single penny falls to the ground.
    de exhortatione castitatis liber

    De PudicitiaLate Antiquity · Latin

    Chastity and sexual/bodily integrity, the central virtue defended in the treatise.

    just as it makes no difference as to places, whether modesty be slaughtered in bedchambers or on towers.
    de pudicitia
    Modesty, the flower of character, the honour of bodies, the grace of the sexes, the integrity of the blood, the good faith of the family, the foundation of holiness, the prejudgement in favour of every good disposition — though rare, not easily made perfect, and scarcely ever lasting — will yet abide in the world to some degree, if Nature has laid the groundwork, if discipline has persuaded, if ce …
    de pudicitia

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    A personified virtue associated with Lacedaemonian shame before cowardice.

    For the goddess they worship is not Impudence but Modesty.
    chapter 8