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Gilbert Chesterton
Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise
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Jules Renard
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend
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S�bastien-Roch Chamfort
False modesty is the most decent of all falsehoods
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Jean Rostand
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil
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Publilius Syrus
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour
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Joseph Addison
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable
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Joseph Addison
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue
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Marcus Cicero
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority
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Confucius
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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