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What is true modesty?

  Spiritual Conferences, Vol. 2, Conference 2

I would say that there are four virtues which go by the name of modesty.  The first and the one which bears the name of modesty, par excellence, and above all others, is propriety in our external behaviour.  The second virtue which bears the name of modesty is the interior decorum of our understanding and will.  The third virtue which bears the name of modesty is to be found in our conversations and words, that is, in the way we speak and talk with our neighbour.  The fourth virtue which goes by the name of modesty is cleanliness and decorum of dress.

(Read further in Spiritual Conferences, Trans. by Fr. Ivo Carneiro MSFS)

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