#modes

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. ↗

— William Greider

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗

— Confucius

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your rainment. For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. Some of you say 'It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear.' And I say, 'Ay, it was the north wind, but shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread.' And when his work was done he laughed in the forest. Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind? And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#modesty #beauty

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ↗

— Aristotle

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