What is the last of the virtues annexed to temperance?
It is modesty (CLX.-CLXX.).
What is modesty?
Modesty is that virtue which restrains the sensitive appetite in things that are less difficult to regulate than those which are the object of temperance, continence, clemency, and meekness (CLX. 1, 2).
What are these things of less difficulty which are kept under control by the virtue of modesty?
They are the desire of one's own excellence; the desire to know; the exterior actions of the body; and lastly, one's exterior as regards the manner of dress (CLX. 2).
What are those virtues called which regulate the sensitive appetite with regard to these divers things?
They are called humility, the virtue of the studious, and modesty in its strict sense (CLX. 2).
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