“The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.” ParentYouthAffectionChiefsModestyKindredRecommendations Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.” IfsMenPoliticalSufferingYouthAmbitionProjectsResentmentModestyIntrigueLively Author:Madame de Stael
“The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.” KnowsYouthCamerasModestyModest Author:Mason Cooley
“Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.” BodyHandsMightPassionVirtueYouthOccasionsStrongestMechanismModestyProvidence Author:Jeremy Collier
“A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.” GivingShouldYearsParentSubjectsYouthHumilityOughtHonorPreservesPurityDespiseModestyEldersOrnamentsForbearance Author:Ambrose