Modesty

Modesty is a virtue aligned with the virtue of temperance. Temperance regulates things difficult to control;modesty regulates things not difficult to control.

Modesty has to do with matters interior and external;it has place in the soul and character of a man, and in what he does or manifests outwardly. Modesty appears in things that belong to the virtue of humility, to studiousness (that is, the right effort after knowledge), to external movements, and to attire. Weare to discuss all these matters in the pages that follow.